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Half Moon Bay council selects downtown boundary for PG&E microgrid grant application
Summary
Peninsula Clean Energy and city staff presented multiple microgrid boundaries; council voted 3-0 to direct submission for a downtown community microgrid application to PG&E’s Microgrid Incentive Program.
Half Moon Bay city council on Oct. 7 directed Peninsula Clean Energy (PCE) and city staff to apply for PG&E’s Microgrid Incentive Program for a community microgrid centered on downtown Half Moon Bay.
The council’s decision follows an extended presentation by Ross Fisher of Peninsula Clean Energy and interim city engineer Dale Lita, who presented technical options, site constraints and rough cost and land estimates for several candidate microgrid boundaries.
A microgrid, Fisher said, pairs local solar, battery storage and dispatchable loads behind the utility meter (or at the distribution level) so a defined area can “island” and keep serving critical facilities during extended outages. He told the council that PG&E increased available funding for the program to $30 million statewide the morning of the meeting and expected to fund roughly seven projects, with awards on the order of $3–4 million per project plus up to $1 million for…
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