Successful PG&E interoperability testing clears path for commercial and industrial facilities to connect to the grid avoiding years-long wait

California's interconnection queues are stretching three to five years. The reason isn't a lack of power, it's a lack of control infrastructure capable of working within available grid capacity in real time. Most facilities accept the queue as an inevitability. It isn't.

For decades, the industry has treated peak demand primarily as a construction problem. Increasingly, it is becoming a coordination problem instead.