en.Wedoany.com Reported - Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has surpassed 1 million customer solar interconnection points within its service area in Northern and Central California, making it the utility with the highest number of customer-owned solar systems in the United States.

PG&E is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric utility companies in the U.S., headquartered in Oakland, California, providing electric service to approximately 16 million people across a 70,000-square-mile service area. The company began its involvement in the solar sector in the 1990s, when the technology was still niche. Entering the 2010s, solar adoption began to expand, with accelerating development and significant changes over the past three decades. From 2020 to 2025, more than 500,000 solar interconnection points were added to PG&E's grid, with over 70,000 new solar installations recorded annually in the last two years. This has made the region one of the largest concentrated areas of distributed solar power generation in the world.

Entities driving customer-owned renewable energy generation include residential homeowners, businesses, schools, agricultural operations, and community organizations. This achievement demonstrates that rooftop and on-site solar systems have become an integral part of California's energy transition. Jason Glickman, PG&E's Executive Vice President of Strategy and Growth, stated that the company's scale of solar adoption exceeds that of any other utility in the U.S., and reaching 1 million interconnection points is a story about customers and future development.

PG&E has increased investments in grid automation, forecasting technology, and streamlined interconnection processes to manage the growing number of distributed energy resources. The company encourages customers to adopt solar-plus-storage solutions, enabling homeowners and businesses to store excess solar energy during the day and use it during evening peak hours or power outages. In California's clean energy transition, virtual power plant (VPP) projects are emerging, which coordinate thousands of customer-owned solar and battery systems to operate as flexible energy resources.

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