completed in to allow completion of the project to assist with the contracting under PG&E’s 2016 Energy Storage RFO, and the planning for PG&E’s future Energy Storage RFOs and integration of storage projects onto PG&E’s grid. Project In the latter half of 2016, Lyft announced the “Express Drive Load Program,” a partnership between General Motors and Lyft to Management expand a short-term car rental program to drivers, including the for deployment of GM Bolts (an all-electric vehicle). In February Ridesharing 2017, Lyft began offering for rent the GM Bolt to Bay Area Electrification rideshare drivers. By pursuing this project now, it will enable PG&E to support and encourage electrification approaches of TNCs, and anticipate the grid impacts associated with growing EV use case. Project [Project 2.33] will leverage the Smart Grid Fault Detection and Issue Location (FDL) pilot and build off of the learnings from it. Identification Leveraging It is imperative to maximize the value of the results and the Momentary significant lessons learned through previous work in a timely Outage manner by exploring the potential for predictive fault analytics Information through monetary outage data information Project [Project 2.34] does not duplicate PG&E’s Smart Grid Pilot Line Predictive Sensor project, but takes the next logical step in expanding and Risk evaluating further uses and enhancements to line sensor Identification technology. with Radio Frequency The Line Sensor pilot succeeded, and demonstrated the value of (RF) Added to this technology’s ability to reduce customer outage time. PG&E Line Sensors now has the opportunity to maximize that deployment of Line Sensors even further by driving demonstration of this RF approach. Waiting until the third triennial cycle increases the chances that PG&E may need to explore replacing installed sensors if this RF
completed in to allow completion of the project to assist with the contracting under PG&E’s 2016 Energy Storage RFO, and the planning for PG&E’s future Energy Storage RFOs and integration of storage projects onto PG&E’s grid. Project Load Management for Ridesharing Electrification In the latter half of 2016, Lyft announced the “Express Drive Program,” a partnership between General Motors and Lyft to expand a short-term car rental program to drivers, including the deployment of GM Bolts (an all-electric vehicle). In February 2017, Lyft began offering for rent the GM Bolt to Bay Area rideshare drivers. By pursuing this project now, it will enable PG&E to support and encourage electrification approaches of TNCs, and anticipate the grid impacts associated with growing EV use case. Project Issue Identification Leveraging Momentary Outage Information [Project 2.33] will leverage the Smart Grid Fault Detection and Location (FDL) pilot and build off of the learnings from it. It is imperative to maximize the value of the results and the significant lessons learned through previous work in a timely manner by exploring the potential for predictive fault analytics through monetary outage data information Project Risk Identification with Radio Frequency (RF) Added to Line Sensors [Project 2.34] does not duplicate PG&E’s Smart Grid Pilot Line Sensor project, but takes the next logical step in expanding and evaluating further uses and enhancements to line sensor technology. The Line Sensor pilot succeeded, and demonstrated the value of this technology’s ability to reduce customer outage time. PG&E now has the opportunity to maximize that deployment of Line Sensors even further by driving demonstration of this RF approach. Waiting until the third triennial cycle increases the chances that PG&E may need to explore replacing installed sensors if this RF Predictive
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