PG&E PG&E proposes to use its Chowchilla 12 kV DPA as the site for its Demonstration Project C. (PG&E March 10, 2017 Comments at A2, A56.) PG&E describes the Chowchilla DPA as follows: The Chowchilla DPA covers approximately 375 square miles of rural agricultural lands along Highway 99 in the San Joaquin Valley in an area within the PG&E service territory. Load growth in the Chowchilla DPA is generally to support an agricultural customer base, including dairies, cattle ranches, poultry, farms, orchards and associated agricultural processing and storage facilities. This area has seen steady growth in ground water pumping load. […] El Nido Substation serves the western side of the Chowchilla DPA and has experienced normal capacity overloads during 2015 and 2016. […] To ensure sufficient capacity is available in the future to safely and reliably serve customers in the Chowchilla DPA, PG&E has identified that additional distribution bank capacity (replacement of existing distribution bank with higher capacity bank) is needed at the El Nido Substation by the year 2020. Although the El Nido Substation distribution transformer (bank) has operated above its capacity limits in 2015 and 2016, PG&E has determined that a distribution bank capacity project at El Nido Substation can be deferred until year 2020 […] The higher than normal rainfall in the years 2016 and 2017 combined with additional capacity added to the Chowchilla DPA in 2017 provides an excellent opportunity to test whether DERs can be procured to provide distribution capacity services that defer a distribution infrastructure project. (PG&E March 10, 2017 Comments at A56.) PG&E’s budget identifies $2.05 million in nonprocurement costs, broken down into the following categories: solicitation ($1.25 million), project
PG&E PG&E proposes to use its Chowchilla 12 kV DPA as the site for its Demonstration Project C. (PG&E March 10, 2017 Comments at A2, A56.) PG&E describes the Chowchilla DPA as follows: The Chowchilla DPA covers approximately 375 square miles of rural agricultural lands along Highway 99 in the San Joaquin Valley in an area within the PG&E service territory. Load growth in the Chowchilla DPA is generally to support an agricultural customer base, including dairies, cattle ranches, poultry, farms, orchards and associated agricultural processing and storage facilities. This area has seen steady growth in ground water pumping load. […] El Nido Substation serves the western side of the Chowchilla DPA and has experienced normal capacity overloads during 2015 and 2016. […] To ensure sufficient capacity is available in the future to safely and reliably serve customers in the Chowchilla DPA, PG&E has identified that additional distribution bank capacity (replacement of existing distribution bank with higher capacity bank) is needed at the El Nido Substation by the year 2020. Although the El Nido Substation distribution transformer (bank) has operated above its capacity limits in 2015 and 2016, PG&E has determined that a distribution bank capacity project at El Nido Substation can be deferred until year 2020 […] The higher than normal rainfall in the years 2016 and 2017 combined with additional capacity added to the Chowchilla DPA in 2017 provides an excellent opportunity to test whether DERs can be procured to provide distribution capacity services that defer a distribution infrastructure project. (PG&E March 10, 2017 Comments at A56.) PG&E’s budget identifies $2.05 million in nonprocurement costs, broken down into the following categories: solicitation ($1.25 million), project
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