Iron and Sodium Next Generation Battery for Long Duration Energy Storage
Summary
SCH Number
2025100668
Public Agency
California Energy Commission
Document Title
Iron and Sodium Next Generation Battery for Long Duration Energy Storage
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
10/15/2025
Document Description
This project will fund the development, production, verification testing, and analysis of a low-cost and safe iron-sodium battery module. Over the course of the project, the Recipient will integrate large format cells at a technology readiness level of 4/5 into an innovative battery module, collaborate with California-based testbeds, and perform in-depth life cycle analysis and technoeconomic analysis with industry partners to advance the product towards commercialization.
Contact Information
Name
Elyse Kedzie
Agency Name
California Energy Commission
Job Title
Utilities Engineer
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Address
Phone
Name
Amy Hansen
Agency Name
Inlyte Energy, Inc.
Job Title
Project Manager
Contact Types
Project Applicant
Phone
Email
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Irvine, Palo Alto, San Leandro
Counties
Alameda, Orange, Santa Clara
Regions
Citywide
Cross Streets
1933 Davis St Ste 281
Zip
94577
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15301
Reasons for Exemption
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15301 provides that projects which consist of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alternations of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, and which involve negligible or no expansion of existing or former use at
the time of the lead agency's determination, are categorically exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Examples listed in section 15301 include, but are not limited to, existing facilities of both investor and publicly owned utilities used to provide electric power, natural gas, sewerage, or other public utility services. The proposed project will advance an iron-sodium battery system by designing and assembling a battery module and perform testing at a third-party test bed. Thus, the Project will involve the minor alteration of an existing power generation facility and would not result in expansion of use. This project will result in negligible or no expansion of use beyond that of already existing infrastructure. Therefore, the project falls within section 15301 and will not have a significant effect on the environment.
Additionally, this project does not involve impacts on any particularly sensitive environment; 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 sites are 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.
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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