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General Motors has joined Pacific Gas & Electric Company's (PG&E) residential Vehicle-to-Everything pilot program, providing eligible customers in Northern and Central California with incentivized pricing for qualifying GM Energy home energy products. GM Energy is working with utilities like PG&E to leverage GM's bidirectional EV charging technology, which allows compatible GM EVs to supply power back to homes during outages and, in the future, can support the grid by helping balance energy demand, with the goal of ultimately helping improve overall grid resiliency. Customers enrolled in PG&E's residential Vehicle-to-Everything pilot program can receive up to $4,500 in incentives off the price of qualifying GM Energy home products that enable bidirectional charging, such as the GM Energy V2H Bundle or Home System. Customers may also be eligible for additional incentives by participating in planned backup power events and by maintaining enrollment through the end of the

Ahead of the winter storm forecast to deliver strong wind gusts and heavy rain for much of Pacific Gas and Electric Company's (PG&E) service area this week, the company has readied crews and resources to safely and swiftly respond to storm-related outages. PG&E Meteorology Storm Forecast and Preparations PG&E has operationalized 1600 weather stations across its service area, 1400 of which are equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) or advanced machine learning capabilities. PG&E's in-house meteorologists combine this technology with traditional forecasting tools to develop enhanced outage prediction models. PG&E's current forecast models show a weather system delivering heavy rain and mountain snow will enter the northern part of PG&E's service area during the morning hours of Wednesday, March 12. In the afternoon, the storm will extend into the central and southern portions of PG&E's service area and deliver strong southerly wind gusts reaching over

During 2024, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) customers lost nearly $650,000 to utility scammers. To help combat this alarming trend, PG&E is joining the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to help customers recognize and avoid potential scams during National Consumer Protection Week from March 2-8, 2025. Scams targeting utility customers continue at an alarming rate. In fact, during 2024, PG&E received over 26,000 reports from customers who were targeted by scammers impersonating the company, and customers lost $646,000 in fraudulent payments. Unfortunately, this number is likely just the tip of the iceberg for overall scam attempts, as many go unreported. The number of reports is continuing at a high level thus far in 2025, as PG&E received over 1,700 reports of attempted scams in January alone, with customers paying scammers nearly $22,000 during the month. "Scammers will attempt to create a sense of urgency by threatening immediate disconnection of your utility