PG&E Community Microgrids

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When severe weather or other events take the electric grid down is your community ready? If your answer is no, a community Microgrid might be the solution.

A Microgrid (MG) can provide a source of localized power during a grid outage due to extreme weather, a Public Safety Power Shutoff event or other outage. In addition, it can offer efficiency, cost and environmental benefits. A community MG is a group of PG&E customers and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) within a clearly defined electrical boundary able to disconnect and reconnect to the grid, so critical facilities can be safely energized. A community MG is typically designed to provide energy resilience to important community facilities, such as Hospitals, Police and Fire Stations, Gas Stations and Markets.

The local DERs, such as a solar photovoltaic (PV) system and battery, can be owned by third parties and can participate in wholesale markets for energy and related services. PG&E will continue to own and operate the distribution system on which the Microgrid capability is built.

PG&E’s Community Microgrid Enablement Program (CMEP) and Microgrid Incentive Program (MIP) offer both financial and technical support. Creating a community MG requires collaboration between your community, a technical engineering firm, and PG&E. The CMEP and MIP can help you take your community’s energy resilience ideas from concept to reality.

This presentation will offer a general definition of community MGs, including architecture, electrical design, operational modes, DER’s etc., and offer an example of an implemented solution. Also, it will describe CMEP steps including Consultation, Application, Study & Analysis, Development, Operation. The CMEP and MIP work together to fund all aspects of a community Microgrid. They support the development of clean community Microgrids in disadvantaged and vulnerable communities (DVCs). You can apply for either one individually, or for both programs together.


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  • Date: 18 Apr 2025
  • Time: 12:30 AM UTC to 03:30 AM UTC
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  • Zio Fraedo’s
  • 611 Gregory Lane
  • Pleasant Hill, California
  • United States 94523
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  • Starts 15 March 2025 08:00 AM UTC
  • Ends 15 April 2025 06:00 AM UTC
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  Speakers

Shreya Kodnadu of PG&E

Biography:

Shreya Kodnadu is an Expert Grid Innovation Engineer at PG&E. In this role, she develops and implements strategies to scale community microgrid programs, ensuring their resilience and effectiveness. She holds an MS in Power System from Washington State University and has previously worked at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and other utilities on both East and West Coasts. She is currently pursuing her MBA at UC Berkeley Haas.

Franz Stadtmueller of PG&E

Biography:

Franz Stadtmueller received his BS in Electrical Engineering/Power Systems & Electronics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and works as a Principal Electrical Engineer in Pacific Gas & Electric’s Applied Technology Services Department. Franz is a subject matter expert in the area of power system modeling and electrical testing with most recent work on PG&E’s Ground Fault Neutralizer project, grid-forming inverters, and distribution microgrid island studies.





Agenda

No-host social at 5:30pm

Presentation at 6:00pm

Dinner at 7:00pm

Presentation continues at 7:45pm

Adjourn by 8:30pm