Every Utility Should Have This Map

Date: 2 Mar 2011 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

placeholderTo support its solar PV program, Southern California Edison rolled out a map of its grid system, highlighting (in red) areas that “could potentially minimize your costs of interconnection to the SCE system.” A similar map is forthcoming from San Diego Gas & Electric and Pacific Gas & Electric.

The benefits for distributed generation are obvious, cutting the time (and expense) for solar and other small-scale renewable energy developers to find the “sweet spots” where their projects can most economically connect to the grid.

The image below is a screenshot of PG&E’s map, and samples of other utilities’ distribution system capacity maps are online as well.

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John Farrell directs the Energy Democracy initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and he develops tools that allow communities to take charge of their energy future, and pursue the maximum economic benefits of the transition to 100% renewable power.