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4.4 – Energy Draft Environmental Impact Report February 2021 14800 W. Schulte Road Logistics Center 4.4-12 4.4.4 Impacts Analysis Threshold A: Would the Project result in potentially significant environmental impact due to wasteful, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy resources, during Project construction or operation? Less-than-Significant Impact. The Project would consume energy resources during construction and operation and would intensify development on the Project site. Electricity Construction Energy Usage Temporary electric power for as-necessary lighting and electronic equipment, such as computers inside temporary construction trailers, would be provided by PG&E. The electricity used for such activities would be temporary, would be substantially less than that required for Project operation, and would therefore have a negligible contribution to the Project’s overall energy consumption. Operational Energy Usage The operational phase would require electricity for multiple purposes, including building heating and cooling, lighting, electronics, electric pump, and electric forklifts. CalEEMod was used to estimate Project emissions from electricity uses (see Appendix B for calculations). Default electricity generation rates in CalEEMod were used based on the proposed land use and climate zone and were adjusted to reflect compliance with 2019 Title 24 standards. In addition, the Project proposes use of a private well for water and an on-site septic system for sewage disposal. The Project would operate a 22-kilowatt electric pump to pump water from the private well for water use. Water consumption estimates for both indoor and outdoor water use were estimated using CalEEMod default values. Electricity use for water supply were based on the electric pump rating, pump flowrate, electricity intensity factors from CalEEMod for San Joaquin County, and the indoor and outdoor water use default values in CalEEMod. The Project would operate 65 21-kilowatt indoor forklifts. According to these estimations, the Project would consume approximately 4,011,106 kilowatt-hours per year (Appendix B). For disclosure, in comparison, approximately 78 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity were used in PG&E’s service area in 2019 (CEC 2020a). The energy demand calculations do not take into account all of the Project’s energy- saving design features that would result in exceedances of the code requirements. The Project would implement Project Design Features (PDFs), such as PDF-AQ/GHG-1 that involves designing buildings to achieve a minimum of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certified goa l identified by the LEED Green Building Rating System to conserve resources, including energy and renewable resources . The Project would also implement PDF-AQ/GHG-1, which involves installing 2%–3% skylights in warehouse buildings for natural lighting and reducing electricity consumption from warehouse lighting. As such, the Project’s electricity use would be more efficient than what is required, and would likely be even lower than the calculations presented above. In summary, although electricity consumption would increase at the Project site due to implementation of the Project, the Project would comply with the applicable energy standards and regulations and would implement energy-efficiency PDFs. Construction electricity usage would be minimal relative to the Project’s overall energy consumption. For these reasons, electricity consumption of the Project would not be considered inefficient, wasteful, or unnecessary, and impacts would be less than significant.