San Diego Gas & Electric

SDG&E and Bali Express forge path to zero emissions freight transport

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SAN DIEGO, April 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and Bali Express today announced the historic crossing of a Class 8 heavy-duty electric freight truck from the U.S. into Mexico. The semi-truck made its maiden voyage into Mexico, marking a significant milestone as the binational region moves towards a net-zero future.

These dedicated trucks will utilize recently built charging infrastructure installed by SDG&E designed to provide reliable and accessible charging options for

Portal provides safety partners with electrical hazard situational awareness and resources to better serve our community during emergency conditions

SAN DIEGO, April 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) was recently honored with the "2024 Chartwell Best Practices Award" for developing and deploying the Public Safety Partner Portal, which offers a centralized digital hub for emergency preparedness, response, recovery, and reporting for SDG&E and its public safety partners.

"At SDG&E, safety is the cornerstone of our business, which includes ensuring our safety

Program Expanded Opportunities for Hundreds of Small and Diverse Businesses, Helping to Promote Economic Prosperity

SAN DIEGO, March 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- San Diego Gas & Electric's (SDG&E) procurement program generated $2.59 billion in direct economic impact in 2023, contracting with more than 2,000 businesses for goods and services to deliver on the company's mission to serve the 3.7 million people in its service area with increasingly clean, safe and reliable energy infrastructure.

More than 43% of SDG&E's total expenditures were with diverse suppliers – enterprises owned by

Video of San Diego microgrid site available here. 

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) unveiled four new microgrids featuring advanced remote operation capabilities and state-of-the-art safety technologies to help enhance grid reliability and bolster resiliency for the surrounding communities.

The four microgrid and energy storage sites, located in the communities of Clairemont, Tierra Santa, Paradise, and Boulevard, will help address surging energy demands in the San Diego region, especially during hot summer days and the peak evening hours when

This is the 18^th consecutive year that SDG&E received PA Consulting's ReliabilityOne^® Award for Outstanding Reliability Performance among utilities in the west region

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 4, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Every day, approximately 3.6 million people in San Diego and southern Orange counties depend on San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) to provide reliable energy service to their homes and businesses. In recognition of SDG&E's continued superior performance and innovation in the utility industry, PA Consulting recently honored the company with two of its most prestigious awards

Connected devices such as energy storage and smart thermostats centrally managed to reduce demand on the grid

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As extreme heat records fall across the West and strain the power grid, San Diego Gas & Electric is piloting a new cleantech innovation known as a virtual power plant (a VPP) to reduce energy demand and put electricity back on the grid during peak hours – all through leveraging the capabilities of customer-owned smart thermostats, rooftop solar, energy storage and other connected resources such as water pumps.

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In recent years, SDG&E has more than doubled its utility-owned energy storage capacity

SAN DIEGO, July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its commitment to help bolster summer grid reliability and advance California's 100% clean energy goal, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has completed two additional utility-owned energy storage facilities totaling 171 megawatts (MW), enough to power almost 130,000 homes for four hours.

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The 131MW Westside Canal project located in Imperial Valley – home to a high concentration of solar, wind, and

Chargers near the U.S./Mexico border speed up charging for trucks, delivery vans, buses and other large vehicles. 

SAN DIEGO, March 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, San Diego Gas & Electric, along with local and state officials, unveiled four public, direct current (DC) fast chargers at a busy truck stop just north of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry – the first of its kind to open at a truck stop in California to serve medium and heavy-duty vehicles. While these chargers are designed to provide high power charging for trucks, delivery vans, buses and other large vehicles, they can also be used to

The Wildfire Next Generation System (WiNGS) prioritizes mitigation efforts to help protect the region from the threat of wildfire

SAN DIEGO, March 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) was recently honored with a "2023 Chartwell Best Practices Award" for developing and using the Wildfire Next Generation System, or WiNGS, to help protect communities it serves from regional wildfire risk.

"We're very excited to present this award to SDG&E. Their Wildfire Next Generation System is exactly the kind of innovative program that Chartwell Awards were designed to highlight. We

SAN DIEGO, March 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Recognizing the financial hardships brought on by inflation, the lingering effects of the COVID pandemic and the recent surge in winter heating bills driven by natural gas market volatility, San Diego Gas & Electric has redoubled its efforts to help its customers by securing and offering debt relief, as well as various bill assistance programs.

Since 2020, SDG&E customers have received about $140 million in debt relief – a combination of state and federal resources that SDG&E has either played a role in securing, administering, or processing. This