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Source: Business Wire

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced the appointment of Marlene Santos as Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer effective March 15, 2021. Ms. Santos will be responsible for a broad range of services and teams that support the more than 16 million people that PG&E serves in Northern and Central California. This includes PG&E’s customer contact centers; programs supporting energy efficiency, electric vehicles, rooftop so

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Source: Green Technology Media

California already has some of the highest electricity rates in the country. Those costs could rise even faster over the next decade, as utilities harden their grids against wildfires, grow their share of net-metered rooftop solar, and add other costs being passed through to utility customers. But recovering those costs by charging customers by the kilowatt-hour pushes too much of the burden on those least able to pay, according to a new report from the University of California at Berkeley. That’s not just unfair to the state’s most vulnerable residents, the report argues — it could also make it more expensive to electrify transportation and building heating with carbon-free power. To combat this, the report proposes a novel and admittedly radical solution — cutting back on the volumetric, per kilowatt-hour charges on customers’ bills, and recovering the missing money through constructs tied to customers’ income. That could be done by directly recovering a range of fixed utility costs through state sales or income taxes, although the idea of the state collecting taxes and shifting them to the state’s investor-owned utilities may well be politically unpalatable, the report notes.

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Source: Benzinga

While best known for its vehicles, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA ) is an energy production and storage company. Tesla offers solar panels for energy production, and batteries for storage ranging in size from home backup to full grid support such as the Hornsdale, Australia Power Reserve . Tesla and PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG ) are working toward the largest battery backup in the world in … Full story available on Benzinga.com

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Source: Vacaville Reporter

Vacaville resident Thelmarie Cartledge was jolted awake on a Sunday morning when her phone rang. She picked it up, and the call was answered by a man who claimed he was a Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) representative. The caller, who gave the name “Marcus,” told Cartledge that he was going to cut her power so PG&E could install new equipment as her electricity bill had gone up. Cartledge’s bill had increased recently, so she listened further.

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SANTA CLARA, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 18, 2021 / SPI Energy Co., Ltd., (NASDAQ:SPI) (the “Company”), a global renewable energy company and provider of solar storage and electric vehicle (EV) solutions for business, residential, government, logistics and utility customers and investors, today announced Phoenix Motorcars, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company’s EdisonFuture subsidiary,… Read More »SPI Energy’s Phoenix Motorcars Deploys First All-Electric Service Truck to City of Woodland, California in Collaboration with Pacific Gas & Electric

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NEWARK, N.J., Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — PSEG announced today that Joe Forline, vice president of Gas Operations, plans to retire from PSE&G on March 5 and has accepted a position at Pacific Gas & Electric. Brian Clark, senior vice president of Fossil Operations, PSEG Power, will…

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Source: Business Wire

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced the appointment of Joseph Forline as Senior Vice President, Gas Operations, effective March 8, 2021. Mr. Forline will report to Adam Wright, Executive Vice President, Operations and Chief Operating Officer, and will be responsible for the utility’s gas transmission and distribution operations with a focus on safety, compliance, customer service and operational efficiency. “I am thrilled to welcome Joe to

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Source: Green Technology Media

Cathy Zoi, CEO of EVgo, pays a lot of attention to the economics of public electric vehicle charging, both in terms of the widely varying up-front costs from location to location, and the long-term calculations that go into making sure their revenues exceed their costs over their lifetime. “We have a first-mover advantage, but we also have a first-learner advantage,” she said, with data collected from about 1,500 fast chargers across 800 locations to date. That’s allowed the decade-old EV charging provider to develop “proprietary utilization forecasting tools,” aimed at ensuring the early years of a fast-charging site, when relatively few EVs are on the roads to use it, can eventually be made up by the end of its life, as EVs proliferate in its region. “That’s some of our secret sauce.” But this long-range payoff is threatened by the utility rates known as demand charges, which assess fees based on a customer’s peak electricity draw at any moment during a monthly billing cycle. For charging sites dominated by relatively rare, yet very power-intensive, bouts of fast charging, demand charges can add up to 90 percent of total electricity costs, leaving many sites deeply in the red.

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Prevent power outages by securing metallic balloons with a weight SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Valentine’s Day is only a few days away and couples across California are busy making elaborate romantic plans that entail . . . staying at home. But if those COVID-19-friendly, stay-at-home plans involve metallic balloons, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is reminding… Read More »PG&E to Lovebirds: Make Sure the Only Sparks You Generate Are with Your Valentine, and Not from Metallic Balloons in Power Lines

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Community choice aggregators (CCAs) have become a formidable player in California’s electricity markets — taking over the role of supplying electricity to millions of customers from the state’s investor-owned utilities, announcing big-time clean energy contracts and pushing regulators to add flexibility to state rules that stymie their growth. A Monday announcement again underlines that expanding influence: eight CCAs have teamed up on a so-called joint powers authority, an entity joining public agencies in service of a common goal. In this case, the goal is buying larger amounts of clean energy; many of California’s CCAs have renewables targets more aggressive than those of the state at large. Taken together, the new group, California Community Power, serves 2.6 million electric customer accounts, about half the number served by Northern California utility Pacific Gas & Electric. That size “turns them into one of the biggest buyers of power in the country overnight,” said Colin Smith, a senior solar analyst with energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie.

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