PG&E taps Google-funded home batteries to ease grid constraints in Bay Area

PG&E and Google launched a program to dispatch 21,000 residential batteries during peak demand periods, addressing distribution bottlenecks that typically require years of infrastructure investment.

First covered Sep 5, 2026 · 5:46 AM PT · 1 article · no longer in the live window

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Coverage

21d via Bluesky How Home Batteries Unlock the Grid's Next Chapter | Jigar Shah | 30 comments — PG&E ended 2025 with five flexible interconnection sites online. Data centers, EV chargers, hospitals are all waiting for hard path infrastructure that takes…

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Discussion

Bluesky: @jigarshahdc.bsky.social Jigar Shah · 21d ago · 9 ♥ Amazing work by my good friends at @pge4me.bsky.social. I hope this project with Google is a forcing function to get the utility and the regulator to open this kind of opportunity to all customers. 🧵 lnkd.in/p/gpGhUNBR

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