Sustainable development goals index

    

PG&E is committed to continuous improvement when it comes to how we report our impacts and sustainable business strategies. The information below reflects PG&E’s contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We have highlighted the goals that are material to our work and our contributions to reaching them. Unless otherwise noted, our response reflects year-end 2023 performance. 

SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing

Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

 

Coworker Health and Safety

  • Adopted PSEMS, PG&E’s Safety Excellence Management System, a systematic management of our processes, assets, and occupational health and safety to prevent injury and illness. (Learn more)
  • Met or exceeded all 63 of the commitments in our Wildfire Mitigation Plan. (Learn more)
  • Responded to gas odor reports within 19.8 minutes on average, exceeding our goal for the year. (Learn more)
  • Created the Joy on Wheels coworker recognition program to support increasing joy at work for leaders, coworkers, and their teams. Through the program, coworkers nominate each other for specific actions that cause joy and are later recognized at work locations with a certificate, team photos, and celebration. (Learn more)
  • Provided coworkers with challenges to promote physical activity, healthy habits, and good sleep. We also provided free health coaching and tobacco cessation services, as well as health education webinars and free annual health screenings to make it easier for coworkers to complete the screen at home. (Learn more)
  • Continued to provide a family support program for all coworkers that offers childcare and elder care discounts, priority placement, and tutoring and testing discounts. Offered summer camps, extracurricular programs, and after-school day care in select areas. (Learn more)
  • Produced a video featuring senior leadership discussing mental health to help reduce stigma and encourage coworkers to care for their own mental health. (Learn more)

SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy

 

Advancing Clean Energy

  • Delivered 100% greenhouse gas-free electricity to residential and business customers to whom we directly sell power. (Learn more)
  • Connected new battery storage capacity to the state’s electric grid, now totaling more than 2,100 MW. (Learn more)
  • Increased renewable natural gas (RNG) injection projects into our system, doubling the volume from 2022. (Learn more)

Enabling Customer Solutions

  • Helped customers avoid the emission of over 8 million lifecycle metric tons of carbon dioxide through our energy efficiency programs. (Learn more)
  • Enabled up to 467 MW of load reduction through our demand response programs, helping to balance electricity supply and demand in light of California’s evolving grid needs. (Learn more)
  • Reached 580,000+ EVs in operation in our service area—about one in seven of all EVs in the U.S. (Learn more)
  • Brought the total number of rooftop solar customers connected to the grid to over 800,000—about 1 in 6 of all solar rooftops in the U.S. (Learn more)
  • Supported more than 70,000 customers who have installed battery storage at their homes or businesses. (Learn more)

Supporting Energy Affordability

  • Provided weatherization, energy efficiency solutions, and appliances to more than 65,000 income-qualified households through our Energy Savings Assistance Program. (Learn more)
  • Provided 1.4 million income-qualified customers with a monthly discount on their bill through the CARE program. (Learn more)

SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

 

Reducing Wildfire Risk

  • Reduced CPUC-reportable ignitions in elevated risk conditions by 75% in High Fire Threat Districts and high fire risk areas relative to 2017. (Learn more)
  • Put 364 miles of powerlines underground as part of our game-changing investment to underground 10,000 miles of powerlines. (Learn more)
  • Continued our Enhanced Powerline Safety Settings (EPSS) program, which allows for automatic shutdown of electric lines if the electric system senses a problem. (Learn more)
  • Needed two targeted PSPS events—one that affected 3,928 customers in seven counties and two tribal communities and one that affected 1,171 customers in three counties. That compares to five PSPS events affecting about 80,000 customers in 2021, six events affecting about 650,000 customers in 2020, and seven events affecting about two million customers in 2019. (Learn more)

 

Fostering Innovation

  • Issued PG&E's R&D Strategy Report, which identifies nearly 70 priority energy system challenges requiring R&D to achieve PG&E’s True North Strategy. (Learn more)
  • Launched new vehicle-grid integration pilot programs involving residential and commercial customers and multi-customer microgrids and installed the first two Ford vehicle-to-home systems to test backup power. (Learn more)
  • Signed up third parties to participate in our Emergency Load Reduction Program through the Virtual Power Plant and Vehicle-Grid Integration program options. (Learn more)
  • Finalized our first sustainability bond transaction to support investments in grid resilience and carbon reduction in 2023. PG&E published the climate impacts of the bond issuance in our Sustainable Financing Report. (Learn more)

 

SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities

Reduce inequality within and among countries

 

Enhancing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

  • Continued to earn top-tier recognition for our commitment, including rankings from Disability Equality Index, HIRE Vets, and National LGBT Chamber of Commerce and Partners in the National Business Inclusion Consortium. (Learn more)
  • Embraced the diversity of our workforce:
    • About 50% of our coworkers are ethnic minorities and 26% are women.
    • About 7% of our workforce are military veterans and 7% are individuals with disabilities (IWD).
  • Disclosed hires, promotions, and turnover by gender, ethnicity, veteran, and IWD status. (Learn more)

 

Promoting Economic Vitality

  • Spent $4.2 billion or 36.6% of our total procurement expenditures with diverse suppliers. (Learn more)
  • Graduated our 16th year of PowerPathway™, an innovative program that helps people, including women and military veterans, prepare for high demand jobs in the utility and energy industry. There have been more than 1,240 graduates since the program’s inception in 2008. (Learn more)
 

SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

 

Customer and Community Engagement

  • Continued to see the benefits of our Regional Service Model, with leaders in each of our five regions strengthening local relationships and addressing local needs. (Learn more)
  • Contributed 35,350+ coworker volunteer hours to nonprofit organizations throughout California and supported 200+ PG&E-sponsored volunteer events.  (Learn more)

 

Giving Back to Our Communities

  • Contributed $22.6 million to charitable organizations through our Better Together Giving Program, designed to help address critical social, educational, and environmental challenges in the communities we serve. (Learn more)
  • Contributed $8.8 million in coworker, retiree, and matching gifts to nearly 5,000 organizations through our annual Campaign for the Community. (Learn more)
  • Completed our unprecedented Land Conservation Commitment in 2024, which will permanently protect approximately 140,000 acres of PG&E-owned watershed lands. These lands are now conserved for Californians—protecting habitat for fish, wildlife, and plants; open space and cultural resources; outdoor recreation by the general public; and sustainable forestry and agricultural uses. (Learn more)

 

SDG 13: Climate Action

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

 

Committed to Climate Action

  • Made progress on our goal to achieve a net zero energy system by 2040. (Learn more)
  • Exceeded our annual greenhouse gas emission reduction goals relative to a 2015 baseline: (Learn more):
    • 27% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions
    • 19% reduction in Scope 3 emissions

 

Reducing Our Footprint

  • Reached 38% methane emissions reductions from our gas system relative to 2015—exceeding the state’s 20% by 2025 requirement. (Learn more)
  • Deployed 14 Ford F150 Lightning electric pick-up trucks and worked to add full-electric underground cable construction vans and 175 pick-up trucks. (Learn more)
  • Received Net Zero and LEED Gold certifications for our Davis Service Center after optimizing renewable energy use, space efficiency, and reducing waste. (Learn more)
  • Repaired or replaced 35 targeted circuit breakers to reduce emissions. (Learn more)
  • Repurposed over 200,000 gallons of water used in hydrostatic testing for beneficial reuse, including toward irrigation, dust suppression, backfill compaction, and reseeding and watering disturbed areas to return them to their pre-project state. (Learn more)

 

Building Climate Resilience

  • Published PG&E’s Climate Adaptation Vulnerability Assessment, which documents physical climate risk to PG&E’s assets, infrastructure, operations, and service. (Learn more)
  • Awarded $400,000 in grants to help communities build a network of local hubs to build community resilience to climate-driven extreme weather events though the Resilience Hubs grant program. (Learn more)
  • Added our first 100% renewable remote grid at Pepperwood Preserve in Sonoma County, our fifth operational remote grid since 2021. These collaborative, standalone power systems enable PG&E to serve remote customers with electricity, while removing overhead distribution electric lines at the grid edge in high fire-threat areas. (Learn more)

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