PG&E delivers highest level ever of greenhouse gas-free electricity
About 93 percent of the electricity Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) delivered to customers in 2021 came from greenhouse gas-free generation, including renewables, nuclear and large hydroelectric power.
It was the most renewable and greenhouse gas-free electricity that the company has ever delivered to customers.
“Working with our customers, communities, and other partners, we have transformed California’s energy landscape—creating a robust renewable energy market and reducing greenhouse-gas emissions across the state. Now, we’re adding more battery energy storage to enable even more renewables onto our electric grid, paving the way to a healthier environment and carbon-neutral energy system for all Californians,” PG&E Corp. CEO Patti Poppe said.
PG&E is on track to meet the state of Californiaʻs renewable and carbon-free requirements, including delivering 60 percent of its electricity from eligible renewable resources by 2030. PG&E estimates that 50 percent of its customers’ electricity in 2021 came from specified eligible-renewable resources, including biopower, geothermal, small hydroelectric, solar, and wind power.
Large-scale solar energy accounts for 54 percent of PG&E’s total renewable energy power mix. Also, PG&E has connected more than 608,000 customers with rooftop solar to the electric grid. In addition, the company has over 250 Renewables Portfolio Standard-eligible power purchase contracts, totaling over 6,500 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy. Further, PG&E owns 445 MW of eligible-renewable generation, including 13 solar power plants, which are mainly located in California’s Central Valley and generate up to 152 MW of clean power.
Additionally, the company has contracts for battery energy storage projects totaling more than 3,300 MW of capacity to be deployed through 2024.
Further, PG&E is the leading United States utility in residential, behind-the-meter (BTM) battery storage capacity deployment. More than 33,000 PG&E residential and business customers have installed and connected BTM battery storage systems to the grid in PG&E’s service area, totaling more than 360 MW of capacity.
