Strategic Advancements for Offshore Wind: Feasibility and Business Case Study for Offshore Wind Infrastructure at the Port of Oakland
Summary
SCH Number
2025100637
Public Agency
California Energy Commission
Document Title
Strategic Advancements for Offshore Wind: Feasibility and Business Case Study for Offshore Wind Infrastructure at the Port of Oakland
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
10/15/2025
Document Description
The grant agreement funds the identification, planning, and design of potential sites at the Port of Oakland (Port) to support offshore wind (OSW) supply chain and logistics operations. This project - Strategic Advancements for Offshore Wind: Feasibility and Business Case Study for Offshore Wind Infrastructure at the Port of Oakland - will prepare the Port to serve as a potential hub for OSW for one or more of the following purposes: sub-component manufacturing, assembly of floating platforms, component storage and flexible laydown, and operational maintenance and emergency response capabilities.
Contact Information
Name
REID BOGGIANO
Agency Name
California Energy Commission
Job Title
Electric Generation System Program Specialist I
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
Jason Garben
Agency Name
City of Oakland, a municipal corporation, acting by and through its Board of Port Commissioners
Job Title
Manager, Project Management Services
Contact Types
Project Applicant
Phone
Email
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Oakland
Counties
Alameda
Regions
Citywide, Northern California
Cross Streets
7th Street and Middle Harbor Road
Zip
94621
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Cal. Code Regs, tit. 14, §§ 15306, 15262
Reasons for Exemption
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, section 15306 provides that basic data collection, research, experimental management, and resource evaluation activities which do not result in a serious or major disturbance to an environmental resource are categorically exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). This project consists of data collection and paper studies to enable the Port of Oakland to diversify California’s renewable energy portfolio. The available CEC funding would be used for data collection to confirm industry interest and use, complete field investigations and data collection programs, conduct preliminary engineering to a 30% design level, and develop a construction cost estimate and schedule. For these reasons, the proposed project will have no significant effect on the environment and is categorically exempt under section 15306.
In addition, this agreement involves only feasibility or planning studies for possible future actions that appropriate agencies, boards, or commissions have not approved, adopted, or funded. Environmental factors of this research have been considered. Therefore, the project is exempt from Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, section 15262.
This project does not involve impacts on any particularly sensitive environment; does not involve any cumulative impacts of successive projects of the same type in the same place that might be considered significant; does not involve unusual circumstances that might have a significant effect on the environment; will not result in damage to scenic resources within a highway officially designated as a state scenic highway; the project site is not included on any list compiled pursuant to Government Code section 65962.5; and the project will not cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource. Therefore, none of the exceptions to categorical exemptions listed in CEQA Guidelines section 15300.2 apply to this project, and this project will not have a significant effect on the environment.
For these reasons, the proposed work will not have any significant effect on the environment and falls under sections 15306 and 15262.
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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