Dive Summary:

• Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) presented state regulators with a progress report that covers the utility’s Smart Grid Deployment Plan and its outage detection program.
• Kevin Dasso, PG&E’s smart grid senior director, noted that the utility has made progress in making their electric grid more intelligent and that the report demonstrates the company’s focus on “safety, reliability, and affordability.”
• PG&E also announced the release of Green Button Connect, which is a new facet of a year-old initiative that allows customers to download their energy data and send it to a third party app developer to track their usage.

From the article:

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) had presented California state regulators its yearly progress update showing the utility’s progress on its smart grid plan. The report covers projects that are part of the Smart Grid Deployment Plan PG&E submitted to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in June 2011, which includes integrating a wide range of advanced communications, computing, sensing and control technologies to modernize the electric system in his Northern and Central California coverage areas. ...