18 News & Press Releases found
Pacific Gas and Electric Company News
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PG&E Launches Microgrid Incentive Program with $79 Million in Project Funding
Pacific Gas and Electric Company this week (Oct 11) announced the launch of its Microgrid Incentive Program (MIP) and handbook, providing funding, expertise and guidance for building community, local and tribal government-proposed multi-customer ...
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PG&E, Energy Commission Unveil Battery Energy Storage In San Jose
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and the California Energy Commission today unveiled an innovative battery energy storage system pilot project to better balance power needs of the electric grid. An official ribbon-cutting ceremony ...
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PG&E And AIA San Francisco Announce Opening Of Competition For Zero Net Energy Building Designs
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) joins American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter (AIASF), in partnership with Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC), today to announce the opening of the third annual ...
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PG&E Announces Enhanced Green Energy Program To Give Electric Customers More Renewable Options
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) said today that it has reached an agreement with a diverse group of consumer and other organizations to enhance its proposed "Green Option" to give electric customers an opportunity to support 100 ...
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PG&E Honors Martinez Unified School District As 75,000th Solar Customer In Northern And Central California
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today celebrated the Martinez Unified School District (MUSD) as the 75,000th solar customer in its Northern and Central California service area. Through the California Solar Initiative (CSI) program, ...
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PG&E Named A Top Utility For Smart Grid Implementation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced that it was named a top utility for smart grid implementation by GreenTech Media and GTM Research, leading analysts of clean energy markets and technology. This marks the second year in a ...
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PG&E Grant Supports Solar Job Training, Community Vitality
Courtney Dittmar was thrust into a tough Bay Area job market in 2009 when she lost her job of nine years at a university library. After two years of unemployment, a friend connected her with the nonprofit GRID Alternatives, which runs a Solar ...
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PG&E And AIA San Francisco Announce Winners Of Competition For Zero Net Energy Building Designs
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), in collaboration with the University of California, Merced, joins American Institute of Architects, San Franciscochapter (AIA SF) today to announce the following award winners. Honor Awards were ...
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Habitat for Humanity And PG&E Join Forces To Brighten Lives Of Families With Solar-Powered Homes
Habitat for Humanity, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), and City of Oakland are celebrating the construction of a new 12-home affordable housing development in Oakland`s District 7 and the renewal of PG&E`s Solar Habitat program ...
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PG&E Showcases Extended-Range Electric Truck From VIA Motors At National Plug-In Day Events
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) celebrated National Plug-In Day at three Bay Area events Sunday by showcasing the utility`s first extended-range electric truck with manufacturer VIA Motors. All manner of electric vehicles amassed at ...
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PG&E To Provide Energy Savings To 30 Million Square Feet Of Commercial Customers By 2015
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced that it accepted the Better Buildings Challenge from the White House and U.S. Department of Energy, becoming a Better Buildings Challenge Utility Ally. As a Utility Ally, ...
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PG&E And AIA San Francisco Announce Opening Of Competition For Zero Net Energy Building Designs
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) joins American Institute of Architects, San Francisco chapter (AIA SF), today to announce the opening of the second annual Architecture at Zero competition for zero net energy (ZNE) building ...
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PG&E Reaches Major Milestone Installing 9 Millionth SmartMeterâ„¢
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced it achieved a major customer milestone, having recently upgraded more than 9 million meters to SmartMeter™ technology. And now, with 93 percent of the SmartMeter installations ...
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PG&E Ranked as Nation`s Top Utility for Solar Installations
A new survey by the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) ranks Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) as the nation`s top electric utility in the amount of solar power added to its system in 2011. PG&E is first in the Annual Solar ...
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PG&E Sponsors U.S. Department of Energy Green Button Apps Contest
After seeing the potential for customers to save energy and money by downloading personal energy data through its Green Button service, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is supporting further industry innovation by sponsoring a nationwide ...
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PG&E Announces Strong Gains in Clean Energy Deliveries
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced today that it is making significant progress toward meeting California`s ambitious clean energy mandates. In a progress report provided ...
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PG&E Tallies Renewable Energy Gains in 2011
Helping to meet California`s environmental goals, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) added more than 220 megawatts of clean wind and solar power to its generation mix in 2011 and signed contracts for future delivery of 463 megawatts of new ...
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PG&E Joins VIA Motors in Unveiling First Extended-Range Electric Truck at Auto Show in Detroit
DETROIT, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today joined VIA Motors in unveiling the first extended-range electric pickup truck for utilities featuring an innovative technology that, in addition to ...