Smart Grid Deployment Roadmap

“SDG&E will use this roadmap as a tool for adaptive management and leverage it to gain directional alignment with customers and other regional stakeholders; ensure a common understanding within SDG&E; create a dialogue with regulators and legislators; advance discussions with other utilities, vendors, and industry stakeholders; and establish a baseline to move forward with, track against and update as the utility implements solutions to enable its Smart Grid vision”

SDG&E’s Smart Grid initiatives

• Customer Empowerment – SDG&E is investing to ensure customers have the knowledge and necessary information to make informed energy management decisions to maximize their energy value and to support their access to third-party value-added services and offerings while protecting their privacy.
• Renewable Growth - SDG&E is making Smart Grid investments that will mitigate the impact of distributed and other intermittent energy sources by increasing measurement, control, and management capabilities;
• Electric Vehicle Growth – SDG&E is deploying new Smart Grid technologies in conjunction with traditional infrastructure upgrades to ensure the safe, reliable, and efficient integration of PEVs;
• Reliability & Safety -SDG&E is maintaining and/or improving reliability by mitigating the challenges that intermittent resources and electric vehicles present to an aging electric infrastructure through implementation of advanced sensors and associated systems, and other capabilities that will improve employee and public safety;
• Security – SDG&E is investing to address the increased physical and cyber security risks and threats associated with Smart Grid system design, development, implementation, and operations;
• Operational Efficiency – SDG&E is leveraging existing and developing new capabilities to improve the efficiency of planning processes and system operations through remote monitoring and real-time responsiveness enabled by the deployment of advanced sensors and management systems;
• Smart Grid Research, Development and Demonstration (RD&D) - SDG&E is improving its capabilities by researching new technologies, integrating emerging technology solutions, testing for interoperability and providing proof-of-concept demonstrations;
• Integrated and Cross-cutting Systems – SDG&E is deploying systems in areas such as application platform development, data management and analytics and communications that support Smart Grid functionalities across multiple business units; and
• Workforce Development - SDG&E is investing to develop its current workforce and to transition to a future workforce that will meet the unique requirements of Smart Grid through implementation of effective organizational change management and workforce planning.

Additional Information

View the regulatory filing to see SDG&E’s entire Smart Grid Roadmap.

• Smart Grid Deployment Roadmap (pdf)