Dive Insight:
- In its Smart Grid Annual Report, Pacific Gas & Electric's (PG&E) outlined in detail its spending to integrate advanced communications, computing and sensing and control technologies onto its grid in Northern and Central California.
- By Sept. 1, the utility had installed 9.72 million smart electric and gas meters, expanding its ability to detect outages and utilize self-healing circuits to restore power and reduce the length of an outage.
- PG&E's investments in modernizing its electric grid resulted in the lowest instance of customer outages in the utility's history in 2012.
Dive Insight:
Investments in the grid are paying off in real dollars saved, PG&E told state regulators. Between July of 2012 and June of 2013, the report said PG&E saved $51.7 million and avoided 31.4 million pounds of carbon dioxide emissions.
