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PG&E Distribution Planning Facilities

Facilities in PG&E's Grid Needs Assessment and distribution forecasts, weekly: rating, primary driver, service required and when the need is expected.

Published by PG&E Grid Resource Integration Portal (opens in a new tab)Cadence: weekly snapshotInfrastructureCAISO market
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About this data

Each row is a bank or circuit that appears in one of PG&E's planning sets: grid needs by substation, circuit and line section, or load and DER forecasts. It carries the facility's rating, primary driver, the distribution service required and the date the need is anticipated. Yearly values sit in a companion dataset.

What people use it for

  • See which PG&E facilities have forecast grid needs
  • Find the driver and timing of an expected need
  • Compare forecast sets across substations and circuits

Where to use it

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The grid agent reads it to answer questions about CAISO. Every answer names the data it read and links back here.

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Questions

Which data provider has PG&E Distribution Planning Facilities data?
Ask the Grid has it, from PG&E Grid Resource Integration Portal. You can browse every row in Ask the Grid Data, query it with SQL or the Ask the Grid API, reach it from an AI assistant over MCP, or ask the grid agent about it in plain English.
Where does PG&E Distribution Planning Facilities come from?
It comes from PG&E Grid Resource Integration Portal. This page links to the original publication, so any value can be checked against it.
How do I download or query PG&E Distribution Planning Facilities?
Open the pge_grip.planning_facilities table in Ask the Grid Data to browse every row and run SQL against it, call it from code through the Ask the Grid API, or connect an MCP client. Full history can be delivered on a schedule to Snowflake, Databricks or your own storage.
Can I ask questions about PG&E Distribution Planning Facilities in plain English?
Yes. The grid agent reads this data when a question needs it, for example "which pg&e substations have grid needs", and every answer names the dataset it read.