PG&E’s Plan for a More Efficient, Greener Smart Grid Filed with CPUC

A smarter grid combines communications, computing and control technology for greater efficiency. Photo courtesy of Theodore Scott

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pgecurrents.com - by Jonathan Marshall - June 30, 2011

This article originally appeared in NEXT100, a blog on the next century of energy supported by PG&E.

PG&E today handed the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) its broad Smart Grid plan for building a more flexible, efficient, reliable and environmentally sustainable electrical system for the benefit of its more than five million electric customers.

The plan represents a year of concerted effort by PG&E’s widely honored Smart Grid team, responding to a CPUC request on June 24, 2010. Other California utilities also will be filing their Smart Grid plans by tomorrow’s deadline.

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