Google funds Pacific Gas & Electric’s SHARE virtual power plant, a proof of concept for privately funded distributed energy capacity.

Utility Dive reported that Google is funding Pacific Gas & Electric’s SHARE virtual power plant. The program is described as a proof of concept for privately funded distributed energy capacity.

The source identifies a distributed-energy program rather than a dedicated generating station for a named Google data center. The supplied excerpt does not specify the funding amount, participating-resource count, power capacity, storage duration, or delivered energy.

Pacific Gas & Electric said the program could eventually expand to commercial, industrial, and utility-scale resources. That is a stated possibility, not evidence that those resource categories are already included or that expansion has been committed.