PG&E's Innovation Journey in 2024 features
Refreshed Portfolio of Emerging Technology Projects to Address Grid
Challenges Outlined in the Company's R&D Strategy
OAKLAND,
Calif., Feb. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Gas
and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced it is exploring
more than 20 additional solutions resulting from its 2023
Accelerating Innovation effort which included its first-ever
R&D Strategy Report, Innovation Summit and Pitch Fest.
PG&E's R&D Strategy Report details 67 challenges that
the Company has identified in building a clean energy future for
Northern and Central California.
Following the report's publication, PG&E hosted its first
Innovation Summit in July 2023, where
more than 3,000 people from across sectors convened to
engage and collaborate with PG&E leaders and subject-matter
experts about the current state and future needs of the energy
system.
Following the Innovation Summit, PG&E solicited and received
628 applications from innovators with proposed solutions to
the 67 challenges. PG&E evaluated all of the applications and
selected 60 proposals, asking those innovators to pitch
their solutions in person at its Innovation Pitch Fest in
September 2023.
"We are on a mission to deliver safe, affordable, and reliable
energy for all of our customers through and beyond the energy
transition, and we recognize doing so requires developing and
deploying energy innovations at greater speed," said Mike Delaney, Vice President, Utility
Partnerships and Innovation, PG&E. "PG&E is where
innovation goes to scale. Our partnerships with energy innovators
have a direct impact in bridging the gap between today's energy
system and California's clean
energy future."
Advancing Climate-Tech Solutions
As a result of Pitch Fest, PG&E has identified more than
20 additional solutions to further investigate or
demonstrate in 2024, including through PG&E's recently launched
Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) 4 portfolio of
emerging technology projects. The solutions PG&E is exploring
aim to address needs across the energy system and are from the
following companies:
Electric Vehicles:
- Eaton
- Gridtractor
- itselectric
- New Sun Road
- Valmont Industries
- WeaveGrid
Gas:
- C-FER Technologies
- Onboard Dynamics
- TrelliSense
Integrated Grid Planning:
- Camlin Energy
- Future Grid
- General Electric
- Infravision
- Palantir Technologies
Supply and Load Management:
Undergrounding:
- Biosirus
- CivilGrid
- General Electric
- Parsons Corporation
- SAM Companies
- The Okonite Company
Wildfire:
- Future Grid
- Treeswift
- Ubicquia
This list above includes Pitch Fest solutions of interest either
in a pre-commercial/early commercialization phase or, for
commercialized solutions, where significant PG&E R&D is
required to leverage. Fully commercialized solutions of interest
from Pitch Fest that are being evaluated through traditional
utility processes are not listed. In addition, PG&E continues
to re-evaluate the other 568 applicants not invited to Pitch Fest
and is selectively adding more innovative solutions to continue
investigating in addition to those identified from Pitch Fest.
PG&E's strategy and needs as well as available technology
and solutions continue to evolve over time, and there will be
additional avenues for collaborating with PG&E through its
continuing Accelerating Innovation effort in 2024.
To learn more about PG&E's R&D Strategy, read PG&E's
R&D Strategy Report, view the recordings of all Innovation
Summit 2023 sessions, or to contact PG&E and get involved,
visit www.pge.com/innovation. To dive deeper into PG&E's
upcoming portfolio of EPIC projects, view the EPIC 4 Public
Workshop presentation available at www.pge.com/EPIC.
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 sixteen 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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