Monterey

• Planning Process

  • The City is working with Tom Habashi as an ungrounding consultant, retired CEO of Central Coast Community Energy (July 2024)

  • The new Rule 20 - Funding for Undergrounding

  • Planning Tips for Cities like Monterey

• North Fremont Underground Utility District Ordinance
  (Rule-20 funds for 80% of costs available; currently inline for planning and design at PG&E)

• Possible Ballot initiative proposed by Monterey Undergrounding

  • Funding for Underground Utilities (Ray Meyers)

  • Possible Ballot Initiative Utility Tax calculations

• Peninsula Region Evacuation Guide (Sep 2021)

• Mayor Roberson pushes for undergrounding (July 12th, 2018)

• Old Town and Oak Grove Undergrounding Study (1994)

• Video of Dec 16th, 2020 Monterey Undergrounding Meeting w/Harris & Associates (re: Bonding) and Presentation by Harris

PG&E

• PG&E Franchise Agreement (from 1962)

• PG&E Undergrounding web page

• Map of high tension supply lines (>100kV)

• PG&E Bets Big on Infrastructure Projects to Move Utility into ‘New Era’ (Feb 2022) or read pdf here

• PGE Rule 20 Guidebook that directly pertains to us (Oct 2021)

• Bury PG&E (Mercury News opinion, Aug 2021)

• PG&E Will Bury 10,000 Miles of Power Lines (July 2021)

• PG&E Overhead to Undergrounding Program

• How PG&E’s Aging Equipment Puts California at Risk

• Facts About Undergrounding Electric Lines

• When Will PG&E Call a PSPS?

Other California Cities

• Carmel Underground

• Pebble Beach Undergrounding

• Palo Alto Undergrounding FAQs

  • Citing community concerns, Palo Alto to revisit strategy for burying electric lines (Oct 2023)

• Berkeley Undergrounding (residents for undergrounding website)

  • Conceptual Study for Undergrounding Utility Wires in Berkeley (Feb 2018)

  • Study to Underground Utility Wires in Berkeley; Phase 3 Report (Feb 2020)

  • Video of Jan 18th, 2021 Monterey Undergrounding Meeting w/Marvin Snow (Berkeley Undergrounding) and Powerpoint presentation by Marvin Snow

• San Diego Undergrounding Program

  • Utilities Undergrounding Program Dec 2023 Newsletter

  • Five Year Implementation Plan FY2018-FY2022

  • San Diego master Plan for Utilities Undergrounding Program

  • San Diego Resolution E-3788 (raises utility fess for undergrounding)

  • Electric & Gas Franchise Fee Workshop (San Diego)

• San Francisco

  • Study on Undergrounding of Utility Wires and Expansin of Fiber Network in SF

  • San Francisco Coalition to Underground Utilities

  • San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ Handbook On Undergrounding Utilities

• Palm Desert Utility Undergrounding

• Del Mar Undergrounding Project

• Anaheim Underground Conversion Program

• Rancho Palos Verdes Underground Utilities in Residential Neighborhood

• Newport Beach Assessment District 116

Elsewhere

• Babcock Ranch - a 100% solar and underfunded community in Florida

• Babcock Ranch survives Hurricane Ian

Cost & Funding

• New California rules would crush rooftop solar for renters (2023)

• Electric & Gas Franchise Fee Workshop (San Diego)

• Utility User Tax Facts (Jan 2021)

• Study to Underground Utility Wires in Berkeley; Phase 3 Report (Feb 2020)

• PHASE 1 Decision Revising Electric Rule-20 and Enhancing Program Oversight (June 2021)

• Upcoming changes to Rule-20 funding for undergrounding

• Rule 20 Programs (CPUC) (to be updated later this year)

• Rule 20 Programs - FAQs (CPUC)

• PGE Rule 20 Guidebook that directly pertains to us (Oct 2021)

Related Documents

• Background

  • Utility infrastructure (CPUC)

  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Edison Electric Institute)

• Utility Poles

  • History of wooden utility poles

  • Utility Pole Safety (CPUC)

  • Rules for Overhead Lines (CPUC)

• Fires and fire danger

  • State Fire Marshal: Fire Safety Hzard Zones

    • Map for Monterey

  • PG&E Zogg Fire

  • PG&E transformer fire at DLI

  • Homeowners Insurance Due to Wildfire Risk

• Dig Once Policies

  • Dig Once and Work Together (Kanakis, 2017)

  • Dig Once: Policies and Best Practices (Hughes)

  • Efficiencies available through simultaneous construction and co-location of communications conduit and fiber (2009)

• Behind the meter (home/business power resiliency)

  • Microgrid Knowledge

  • PG&E’s ‘personal microgrid’ device (Backup Power Transfer Meter)

  • Home solar: Guide to going Solar, (too many options and local solar and roofing companies to list!)

  • Home backup power storage: Solar Energy Storage (Tesla Powerwall, Generic PWRcell, Panasonic EverVolt, or LG Energy Solutions)

  • Berkeley Energy Assurance Transformation (BEAT)

• Distributed Power Sources

  • Virtual Power Plants Pathways to Commercial Liftoff (Sept 2023)

• Cellular Service

• European 5G Appeal

FAQ’s

Survey

NEW: Monterey Undergrounding wants your opinion!!

October 2022: Monterey Undergrounding has put together a survey of what residents want to do about Undergrounding out utilities, how important it is to them, and what they think about possible funding sources. Please read the background information on our home page and then learn about funding options and then take the survey here.

A newly developing option:

Ground Level Distribution Systems (GLDS)

• Patent for GLDS

• PG&E Pilot Program (Dec 2023)

• Pilot Project in the Santa Cruz Mountains

• Ground Level Primary Electric Distribution System

• 2024 Wildfire Mitigation for Utilities Conference (see the first two slides)

Opinions

• The Electric Grid Is a Wildfire Hazard (NYT, August 2024)