PG&E Claims Electricity One of the World’s Cleanest Sources with a Mix of Nuclear, Renewables, and Hydro
Press release from PG&E:
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) retail customers received 100% greenhouse gas-free electricity in 2023, making the company’s portfolio of electricity sources one of the world’s cleanest.
In 2023, 34% of PG&E’s total electricity delivered to retail customers—residential customers and businesses to whom the company directly sells electricity—came from specified eligible-renewable resources, including solar and wind power, small hydroelectric generation and biopower. PG&E retail customers also received 53% of their electric deliveries from carbon-free nuclear power generated by Diablo Canyon Power Plant, and 13% from large hydroelectric power.
The company’s GHG-free electric retail sales are one important indicator of PG&E’s clean-energy performance. In another example, PG&E also reached an important battery energy storage milestone, passing the 2,100-megawatt mark for capacity.
“We’re all in on creating a clean energy future,” said Patti Poppe, Chief Executive Officer, PG&E Corporation. “Providing retail customers with 100% greenhouse gas-free electricity in 2023 highlights that PG&E’s electric generation portfolio supports achievement of California’s climate goals.”
California’s goals include reaching carbon neutrality by 2045. PG&E is committed to reaching carbon neutrality by 2040, and to actively removing more greenhouse gases than the company emits by 2050.
Solar Leads for Renewables
Large-scale solar energy accounts for the largest share of PG&E’s renewable energy mix. The company has more than 260 Renewables Portfolio Standard-eligible power purchase agreements totaling more than 6,000 megawatts. According to the California Independent System Operator (ISO), one megawatt produces enough electricity to power about 750 homes.
PG&E also owns 430 megawatts of eligible-renewable generation. That includes 277 megawatts of small hydroelectric, and 13 solar generation plants, mostly in the Central Valley, which generate up to 153 megawatts of clean power.
PG&E also remains a leader in helping customers go solar. The company has connected more than 800,000 customers with rooftop solar to the electric grid. PG&E continues to support customers with resources before, during and after going solar. PG&E’s resources for customers include help finding a solar contractor, as well as a solar calculator to help estimate their savings.
PG&E Crosses Battery Energy Storage Milestone
PG&E also continues to invest in battery energy storage systems to enhance grid reliability, integrate additional renewables into the grid and save customers energy and money.
As of March 2024, PG&E has brought online a total of more than 2,100 megawatts of new incremental battery storage capacity, with an additional 772 megawatts planned in 2024 and 687.5 megawatts planned in 2025. PG&E has more than 3.5 gigawatts of total battery energy storage under contract.
According to the ISO, California’s renewable resources sometimes generate more electricity during the day than customers can use. Battery energy storage allows PG&E and other utilities to store excess solar or wind power for use later in the evening to displace natural gas-fired resources that would otherwise be dispatched to serve the evening peak.
“We’re proud of our clean energy leadership, but we know there is more to do to ensure that clean energy is available at all times of the day and all seasons of the year,” Poppe said. “By unleashing the full potential of battery storage to integrate additional greenhouse gas-free sources of electricity, we will continue to reduce emissions across our energy system and make progress toward our goal of net-zero emissions by 2040 at the lowest possible cost.”
Large-scale battery storage brought online in 2023 included:
- The 350-megawatt MOSS350 Energy Storage project in Moss Landing, (Monterey County) which brought Vistra’s Moss Landing battery to 750 megawatts, making it the largest battery of its kind anywhere
- The 169-megawatt Edwards Sanborn Energy Storage project in Mojave (Kern County)
- The 132-megawatt North Central Valley Energy Storage project in Linden (San Joaquin County)
In addition to large, grid-scale battery energy storage, PG&E connects hundreds to thousands of new, behind-the-meter (BTM) battery energy storage systems to its grid every month.
Through January 2024, behind-the-meter battery storage systems among PG&E customers totaled more than 670 megawatts—35% of the nation’s behind-the-meter storage capacity.
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 16 million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit pge.com and pge.com/news.
Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements
This news release contains forward-looking statements that are not historical facts, including statements about the beliefs, expectations, estimates, future plans and strategies of PG&E, including but not limited to its greenhouse gas emissions reductions, climate goals and transportation electrification. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions, which management believes are reasonable, and on information currently available to management, but are necessarily subject to various risks and uncertainties. In addition to the risk that these assumptions prove to be inaccurate, factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements include factors disclosed in PG&E Corporation and PG&E’s joint annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 and other reports filed with the SEC, which are available on PG&E Corporation’s website at www.pgecorp.com and on the SEC website at www.sec.gov. PG&E Corporation and PG&E undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether due to new information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent required by law.
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Is the electricity from nuclear plants radiation free?
Better tape foil over your outlets, just to make sure.
Well, that’s settles at then, we’re doing the best we can and we’ve saved the beach front Obama property from being submerged.
Well since you asked . All power is radiation so it is impossible for any power to be radiation free just as all light is radiation . Science is it more than a word it is everything . But hey i am betting you knew that ……
PG&e claims legal ownership over their property but we have paid for everything they own.
Never forget what they don’t want you to know.
What’s the price comparison between Diablo nuclear generation and the whale killing, fisheries destroying, viewshed desecrating, bird chopping blades planned offshore Humboldt? Five times more expensive or worse? When are we going to realize the promised savings and if more expensive then why not build replacement nuclear power plants, they’re safer and more environmentally friendly than photovoltaic panels or wind turbines
Nice rant, shockingly stupid graphic.
Actually it’s pretty imaginative.
Nothing stupid about that…
(“A picture is worth a thousand words.”)
I guess I’M going to just have to try and use MY imagination to somehow picture your “more cerebral” rebuttal graphic…
…because, so far, you seem to have only “drawn a blank”…
(I’m seeing nothing from you…)
Fascists Are Capitalizing on Environmental Concerns to Justify Violence
With climate crisis looming, white supremacists are using the environment as grounds for a racist nationalism ideology.Medium-
Idiots are using fascism/racism to explain everything the don’t understand.
There’s no Such thing as a White supremist national movement. That is a lie started by the leftist progs..
I see nobody’s going to step up to the plate on that one. I can’t think of one.
Whoo boy, somebody forgot to take their meds…
Read up on eco-fascism
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism
Akbar is using facts.
Squirrely is parroting someone else’s imagination.
Akbar’s comment seems completely subjective and devoid of fact and no matter how much you may agree with him it doesn’t make it factual.
Some boogeymen never die.
Ok wait a minute! Just cut and paste this article into your Dept. of Cannabis Control license renewal, where they ask YOU to do the carbon analysis on your electricity use from PG&E.
So I see my carbon contribution is ZERO. Awesome. I’m not so sure the DCC is concerned about my actual output, rather they’d like all cannabis farmers to demonstrate their ability to convert lbs.CO2/KW/hr. to Kg CO2/MW/hr. Because weed is bad bad. It would be lawless anarchy if we used the same units as on the bill or power label.
We are the AWGGEI guinea pigs! Supposedly all CA companies with over 500 million in annual revenue will have to report starting in 2025. Then the state will implement its carbon credit system, where you can pollute all you want if you have money to buy carbon credits from companies who emit less CO2 than the limit set by CARB.
Hmmm…. Humboldt Bay Generating Station is run on Natural Gas which is a non-renewable energy source
True that so how do they claim 100% non- fossil fuel generation?
Humboldt bay power plant is not in use except for emergencies.
Huh? Where do you think your electricity is coming from?
So far this month, it hasn’t been from the Humboldt Bay Power plant, or from PG and E for that matter, thanks to my new upgrades to my mini me micro power grid.
When I opened my PG&E bill yesterday… first thing I said was: “ I feel good cause I’m doing my part to save the world.”
I would like my electricity to be reliable and inexpensive. There is no reason that pg&e should need to charge more than 1.5 times the national average per kilowatt hour.
Wait until our offshore wind becomes operational👍
They have all those dead people to pay for.
Why would Kym allow these lies to be printed under her name?
When you’re a monopoly, burning down entire towns is good for business.
Especially, if the towns are old and built of wood…
New houses, new insulation, new windows, new Heat Pumps!
Garberville will probably be next…
PG and E stock used to be $55/share, now less than $20. We inherited 1000 shares, but if we sell them, we will be taxed…
The American Dream is apparently over, and by the time they have enough production, you won’t be able to afford EV’s, Houses, Home Insurance, or Electric Service, so invest in Solar and Batteries and Generators of your own, and have your own personal Utility!
Offshore windmills are the stupidest concept I have heard, ever… Maybe in a small country, with no Nevada…
Nevada should convert all the BLM lands into Solar/Wind generation, battery storage facilities and Homeless Camping, and Nevada would quickly become the wealthiest state…
Out of sight, out of mind.
Remember gas main explosions over the years?
How many aging buried pipelines should be addressed? Enough to make gas unaffordable probably.
Better to walk away from rotting infrastructure for the sake of politics and profit.
No gas coming soon, with unaffordable electric heating.
Most folks probably know this already, but this is always a fascinating watch to see how our power supplies change through the day (for those of us beholden to the grid).
https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html
Oh yeah- PG&E is totally super-duper awesome and completely trustworthy. Here’s a really great idea- Let’s convert everything over to electrical! Chainsaws, power tools, heating, cooking, cars- everything we can because we can always count on PG&E and the PUC to make sure we won’t get ripped off!! GREAT IDEA!
OH Yeah!
Yesterday, we went out for a walk, and when we came home, our electric garage door wouldn’t open, and we couldn’t get in the house!
Hmmmmm, power’s off, keys inside, shit…
We never take our keys and stuff, just go out the garage…
5 hours later, the doors popped by a $200 locksmith, finally, we got in the house, and 1 minute later, the power came on…
So, thanks PG&E! Yer doin a wunnerful job…
Well, linemen get double time on weekends, right?
Do the repairs and planned maintenance on Saturday, fine, but give me a little warning, huh?
gotta be smarter than what you’re workin’ with
That is supposed to be true…
I’ll have to try it!
PG&E cannot say the electrons a Retail customer received did not come from a non-greenhouse gas-free electricity source because customer meters are unable to distinguish between energy sources.
Is this misinformation?
Hmmm nuclear spews warmed up water back into the sea by the millions of gallons each day, the spent fuel is deadly for half a million years, and still no place to store it. And each nuke plant is only a terrorist attack away from becoming a new Chernobyl. Green nuclear. Riiigghhtt…
Half of California’s electricity is made from natural gas. Solar accounts for more than double nuclear, which is roughly the same as hydro and wind. Biomass is only 3% but involves potentially cutting forests and burning it to make e-juice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_California#Coal
It is just the greedy scum company that needs to go.
What a total load of crap , how much fossil fuel was used to create all those solar panels , to ship them halfway around the world to truck them to warehouses , to truck them out to retailers , to truck them to the installation points just to make a claim of clean engery , then how much is used to remove them 25 years later to truck them to ports a d ship them to third world countries to pollute their drinking water and destroy their environment? And i am guessing all those diesel gennies ran on 100 percent bio with zero fossil fuel or lubricants right ? Fact is if we used out own fossil fuels we would still come out just as clean just costs would be around half of what they are today and of course we wouldnt have the need to ship our hazardous waste to third world countries so that it is out of site out of mind keeping the non critical thinkers sippin the coolaide
Humans have evolved into a petrochemical dependant species. Only out is to reduce demand.