Podcast with Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E): The Planning Revolution Utilities Can’t Ignore

Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), serving 16 million citizens across Northern California, is transforming how it plans and prioritizes grid investments to meet unprecedented demand from electrification, data centers, and artificial intelligence. By adopting IFS Copperleaf® Integrated Planning (IP), PG&E is connecting strategy to execution—ensuring every dollar drives customer value, resilience, and sustainability.

Climate-driven wildfires, extreme weather, and surging energy demand are reshaping the grid. To meet these challenges, PG&E is using IFS Copperleaf® Integrated Planning (IP) to balance reliability, affordability, and risk—while preparing for a rapidly changing energy landscape.

“I really believe that integrated grid planning, integrated investment planning, the framework that we are developing with our partners at Copperleaf allows us to be agile.”
Wen Tu
Senior Director, Integrated Planning
PG&E

Through integrated planning, PG&E is rethinking how it invests, collaborates, and executes. The utility is connecting long-term strategy to day-to-day delivery, ensuring every dollar drives value for customers and the communities it serves.

As electrification, renewable integration, and climate pressures accelerate, PG&E’s journey shows how utilities can harness IFS Copperleaf to improve capital efficiency, strengthen reliability, and build resilience—while uniting the industry around a shared framework for smarter, more consistent investment decisions.

Watch the full Power Perspectives episode to see how PG&E and IFS Copperleaf are shaping the future of grid planning.