Full Title: Opportunities for Integrating Electric and Gas Planning
Author(s): Mark LeBel, Ronny Sandoval, Natalie Mims Frick, and Jeff Deason
Publisher(s): Berkeley Lab
Publication Date: January 3, 2025
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Description (excerpt):
Growing demand for electricity in buildings is creating new opportunities and challenges for electric and natural gas planning. To date, electric and gas planning processes have largely been siloed, and only a few jurisdictions have started to examine how these two processes could be linked together.
The report explores the current state of electric and gas system planning, and the benefits and challenges of integrating these planning processes. We frame the characteristics of an integrated electric and gas distribution planning process and identify indicators of progress toward the characteristics.