PG&E brings new substation online in Monterey Peninsula

MONTEREY, Calif. (KION) - PG&E has flipped the switch on the Del Monte substation to boost power on the Monterey Peninsula.

It will serve Monterey, Seaside, Del Rey Oaks, Sand City, and nearby unincorporated areas.

PG&E says this should stop the larger and longer outages that customers may have experienced over the past several months.

It's also intended to help serve the growing economy and local shift towards EVs.

There's a desperate need for housing in the area as well, so as developers build more housing, this new substation transformer should be able to help serve that additional housing that may come online in the future," PG&E Regional Senior Manager Jeremy Howard

PG&E adds that the substation can also better support customers during a natural disaster and when more people are trying to heat or cool their homes and businesses.