With Leading Clean Energy Portfolio, PG&E Recognizes National Clean Energy Week
September 22 2021 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
In 2020, About 85% of PG&E’s Electric Power
Mix Came from Carbon-Free Resources
PG&E Supports Customers’ Electric Vehicle,
Rooftop Solar and Battery Adoption
PG&E Invests In Utility-Scale Battery
Energy Storage To Enhance Overall Grid Reliability, Integrate
Renewables, and Help Customers
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has been helping
drive the clean energy transition in California and the United
States for more than 20 years and is proud to support this year’s
National Clean Energy Week (Sept. 20-24).
“We are proud of our history as a leader in the industry and
helping California achieve its bold clean energy goals,” said Jason
Glickman, Executive Vice President, Engineering, Planning, and
Strategy. “We are working every day to identify new ways to bring
on more clean energy resources that will improve our environment
while delivering safe and reliable energy to more than 16 million
people in Northern and Central California.”
Clean Energy Portfolio
PG&E delivers some of the nation’s cleanest energy. In 2020,
more than 35% of the electricity PG&E delivered to its
customers came from eligible renewable resources including solar,
wind, bioenergy, geothermal and small hydropower. Adding nuclear
and large hydropower, about 85% of PG&E’s electric power mix
was from carbon-free resources.
Solar Power Growth
At 45%, large-scale solar energy accounted for the largest
portion of PG&E’s total renewable energy power mix in 2020.
Additionally, PG&E has connected more than 580,000 customers
with private rooftop solar to the electricity grid, and supports
customers with resources before, during and after they go solar.
The rooftop solar in PG&E’s service area represents about 20%
of all rooftop solar in the country.
PG&E’s Solar Choice program offers customers an easy way to
go solar — without installing rooftop solar panels. Through the
program, customers can purchase up to 100% of their electricity
from a community solar program generating power in California.
Adopting Electric Vehicles
PG&E is committed helping increase EV adoption in its
service area, where about a quarter of all electric vehicles in the
U.S. can be found. Increasing EV adoption is a critical component
to making California’s clean air future a reality as transportation
is the single largest source of greenhouse-gas emissions in
California, contributing 41%. The state aims to have 5 million
zero-emission vehicles on the road by 2030 as well as 250,000
charging stations. Additionally, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an
executive order in September 2020 that will prohibit the sale of
new gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles after 2035.
Responding to the high rate of EV adoption in its service area,
PG&E supports the large-scale electric infrastructure needed to
incorporate EV charging systems onto the electric grid. This
includes supporting customers for their EV-related projects along
with specifically designed programs helping customers transition to
electric across light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.
Additionally, PG&E supports EV adoption through specially
designed rates, rebates and tools.
Progress on Battery Energy Storage
PG&E is investing in battery energy storage to enhance
overall grid reliability, integrate renewables, and help customers
save energy and money.
The company currently has contracts for battery energy storage
projects totaling more than 1,400 MWs of capacity to be deployed
throughout its service area and the state through 2023. PG&E is
well-positioned with the battery energy storage projects under
contract to meet the state’s ambitious clean energy and storage
goals, while ensuring grid reliability.
In addition to large, grid-scale battery energy storage,
PG&E connects hundreds to thousands of new, behind-the-meter
(BTM) battery energy storage systems to the grid every month. To
date, more than 28,000 PG&E customers have installed and
connected BTM battery energy storage systems to the grid throughout
PG&E’s service area — most of which are residential customers —
totaling more than 316 MWs of capacity.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E
Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is a combined natural gas and electric
utility serving more than 16 million people across 70,000 square
miles in Northern and Central California. For more information,
visit pge.com and pge.com/news.
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