PG&E's endeavor to make electrification easier

About this episode

This episode discusses PG&E's efforts to facilitate electrification and the implications for the future grid.

California utility PG&E is studying the impacts of electrification to understand and prepare for a future grid with high levels of distributed energy resources, and significantly higher power demand. But although PG&E expects to spend about $25 billion by 2040 on grid upgrades, the distribution portion of customers' electric bills could decrease up to 25% over that period as added revenue from increased power usage more than covers the investment costs. In this episode, host Dan Testa speaks with Quinn Nakayama , PG&E's senior director of grid research, innovation and development, about this process and how the utility is deploying technology to make electrification easier for customers, particularly by lowering the cost of upgrades necessary to charge electric vehicles at home.

People in this episode

Host: Dan Testa

Guest: Quinn Nakayama

Topics covered

• electrification
• grid upgrades
• distributed energy resources
• electric vehicles
• utility technology

Keywords

• PG&E
• electrification
• grid upgrades
• electric vehicles
• California

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PG&E

Places: California

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