Smart Grid Deployment

Background

In June 2010, the CPUC adopted Decision 10-06-047 requiring the investor-owned utilities (IOUs) to submit Smart Grid Deployment plans by 2011.

In June 2011, the IOUs filed deployment plans:

• PG&E: approximately $800 million to $1.25 billion incremental capital
• SCE: approximately $1.87 billion through 2014
• SDG&E: approximately $3.5 to $3.6 billion

ORA's Policy Position

ORA found the IOUs’ deployment plans to be significantly flawed, with no clear role for third-party providers or clear strategy on why specific projects were chosen.

See ORA filings:

• Comments on March 15, 2012 on the Workshop Report of Commission Staff.
• Protest on August 4, 2011.

Read more about ORA's policy position on Smart Grid deployment.

Proceeding Status

This proceeding is closed.

See the proceeding docket.

Other Resources

• ORA presentation: Personal Privacy and the Smart Grid 
• CPUC's California Smart Grid page 
• Electronic Frontier Foundation's work on Smart Grid privacy
• Center for Democracy and Technology's Smart Grid page 
• EEnergy Informer (July 2011): "Time Has Arrived for Time Variant Pricing, But What Kind?"