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PG&E outlines automatic capacity evaluator; stakeholders press on monthly ICA refresh obligation
Summary
PG&E described an Automatic Capacity Evaluator (ACE) that will prescreen applications, standardize load calculations and capture outcomes for comparison to ICA results. Stakeholders used PG&E’s update to press the utility on whether it updates changed circuits on a monthly basis and asked PG&E to publish per‑circuit trigger dates.
Pacific Gas & Electric told the CPUC workshop it is building an Automatic Capacity Evaluator (ACE) designed to integrate ICA with the interconnection and energization application pipeline and automatically provide a project‑level prescreen.
PG&E presenter Gabriel (recorded in the transcript) said ACE will calculate standardized customer loads, compare those demands to ICA results for the requested location (including a multi‑year forward look), and return a pass/fail prescreen while recording application IDs so the utility can later compare ICA prescreens with formal engineering study outcomes. PG&E said the ACE concept was proposed in a January advice filing and that the company intends ACE to…
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