Frameworks for Optimizing Routes from Gas to Electricity (FORGE): Residential
Summary
SCH Number
2026040703
Public Agency
California Energy Commission
Document Title
Frameworks for Optimizing Routes from Gas to Electricity (FORGE): Residential
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
4/15/2026
Document Description
Under grant agreement PIR-25-004, the California Energy Commission provides an $800,000 grant to The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the Davis Campus for the project. This project will examine impediments to decarbonizing gas end uses in homes, with a focus on supply chain dynamics. Results will deliver a nuanced depiction of challenges and opportunities inherent in residential gas transitions and identify policy options to unlock electrification routes.
Contact Information
Name
Mithra Moezzi
Agency Name
California Energy Commission
Job Title
Air Pollution Specialist
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Address
Phone
Name
Griffiths Atungulu
Agency Name
The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the Davis campus
Job Title
Project Manager
Contact Types
Project Applicant / Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Email
Location
Cities
Davis
Counties
Yolo
Regions
Northern California
Zip
95616
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Cal. Code Regs., tit 14, § 15301; 14 C.C.R. § 15306
Reasons for Exemption
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, 15301, Existing Facilities, provides an exemption from CEQA for the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing structures, facilities, mechanical equipment or topographical features involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing. This project will conduct research, database searches, computer modeling, meetings (actual or virtual) within already existing laboratories, office buildings, and for case studies, residences. There will be negligible or no expansion of existing use in any of these
structures. Therefore, the project falls within section 15301 and will not have a significant effect on the environment.
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, Section 15306, Information Collection, exempts from CEQA projects that consist of basic data collection, research, experimental management, and resource evaluation activities which do not result in a serious or major disturbance to an environmental resource. The proposed project activities fall within these categories. For these reasons, the proposed project will have no significant effect on the environment and is categorically exempt under section 15306.
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.
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
14 C.C.R. § 15262
Reasons for Exemption
While the grant may provide information to consumers, middle-market actors, and manufacturers about gas-to-electric equipment conversions, the grant does not include conversions. Therefore, the activities fall within Cal. Code Regs., tit.
14, Section 15262, Feasibility and Planning Studies, which exempts from CEQA projects that are only feasibility or planning studies for possible future actions which the agency, board, or commission has not approved, adopted, or funded.
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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