Opportunities for Integrating Electric and Gas Planning

January 15, 2025

This webinar summarizes key findings from Berkeley Lab’s recently published report, Opportunities for Integrating Electric and Gas Planning. 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. There are many potential benefits of integrating these processes. However, it will require a range of reforms. The webinar discusses the current state of electric and gas planning and the benefits of integrating these planning processes. Using four challenges, we frame the characteristics of integrated electric and gas distribution planning process and identify indicators of progress towards the characteristics.