PG&E issues unprecedented call for microgrids ahead of 2020 wildfire season

摘要

In an effort to keep its Northern California customers' lights on duringwidespread precautionary blackouts to prevent power lines fromsparking wildfires, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has launched anunprecedented search for microgrids.Heavily criticized for cutting power to millions of its customers inOctober, and under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with its parentcompany, PG&E Corp., related to a series of deadly and devastatingblazes in 2017 and 2018, the embattled utility is seeking offers forcommunity-wide microgrids to come online in 20 select areas by the2020 wildfire season.