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PG&E, Rewiring America and Google Launch First-of-its-Kind Virtual Power Plant to Help Lower Costs for All Customers

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Initiative aims to deliver hundreds of deeply discounted home energy upgrades and enroll over 20,000 existing energy devices installed in customers’ homes

OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today announced SHARE (Smart Home Assets for Reliability and Efficiency), a first-of-its-kind Virtual Power Plant (VPP) designed to help communities benefit from rising electric demand, while improving affordability and reliability for all customers.

Together, PG&E, Rewiring America, Google, Carrier Global Corporation, Tesla, Sunrun, Renew Home, Demand Side Analytics, encoord and other partners will deploy the new VPP—a coordinated network of home batteries, smart devices, and battery-enabled heat pumps that reduce energy use during periods of high demand—in Bay Area communities.

The model is designed to create additional capacity, support reliability and help put downward pressure on rates while participating households save money through smarter energy management with next-generation home technology. SHARE is a first-of-its-kind VPP proof-of-concept that combines enrollment of existing home energy devices with regional deployment of privately funded new electrification technologies to address growing electric demand.

“This is about delivering power at the speed our economy demands—while improving affordability and reliability for the people we serve,” said Chelle Izzi, Chief Commercial Officer, PG&E. “SHARE shows how investing in customers can unlock grid capacity, support growth, and bring real benefits back to communities.”

A New Approach to Meeting Rising Demand
Electric demand is rising across the country as more businesses, vehicles, homes and buildings rely on electricity. PG&E continues to aggressively build and modernize the electric system to meet long-term growth, including needed transmission and distribution investments.

SHARE adds a complementary, near-term pathway: investing directly in homes located where energy demand is growing. This proof-of-concept VPP is designed to demonstrate how targeted investments in homes can help: 

Improve reliability and lower costs by making better use of everyday, flexible home energy resources alongside continued grid investmentExpand capacity during periods of high demandSupport new and growing energy users more quickly

PG&E is working with Tesla, Sunrun, and Renew Home to enroll nearly 21,000 existing flexible energy devices into the program. This will allow participating households to gain new ways to manage their energy costs and earn rewards for the smart features they already use, while shifting demand during peak periods helping make better use of existing infrastructure, benefiting customers across the region. The resource is expected to begin supporting the grid as early as fall 2026.

“Home energy devices hold enormous, untapped capacity that can meaningfully improve affordability and reliability for all Californians,” said Mary Powell, CEO of Sunrun. “This initiative unlocks that potential while giving customers an opportunity to share in the economic benefits of helping improve their local grid.”

Carrier is the initiative’s launch partner for the new deployments, providing its battery-enabled heat pump solution, including the Carrier Performance™ Series Variable-Speed Heat Pump with EnerSync™, that automatically stores and shifts energy use to help lower costs for customers, maintain comfort, and support grid reliability during periods of peak demand.

“As energy demand grows, SHARE demonstrates how Carrier can help deliver distributed capacity with the firmness to scale as a fast and reliable grid resource,” said Hakan Yilmaz, President, Carrier Energy & Chief Sustainability Officer. “Carrier’s battery-enabled HVAC technology brings together our trusted comfort, market presence and dealer scale to help deliver homeowner value and reliable grid flexibility.”

Eligible customers in Santa Clara and Alameda counties will have the opportunity to receive:

New Carrier high-efficiency, battery-enabled heat pumpsLower monthly energy bills through smarter energy managementGreater comfort and improved home resilience

All told, these resources will be orchestrated into a distributed power plant by PG&E and Demand Side Analytics with the goal of unlocking additional capacity on the regional electric transmission system.

Designed to Protect Customers
SHARE reflects a shared commitment to responsible energy growth and is structured so that existing customers benefit from growing grid capacity needs. The program will be fully funded by Google to support customer incentives, technology deployment, and program delivery.

“As demand scales, our current electricity grid can bridge the gap—if we optimize it correctly,” said Amanda Peterson Corio, Global Head of Energy & Power at Google. “This program unlocks the potential of local distributed energy resources to strengthen grid capacity and resiliency while delivering meaningful benefits for local communities.”

Rewiring America will work directly with households to deploy and enroll energy-saving electric technologies into SHARE that can serve as flexible grid resources while improving the customer experience. They will also work closely with local installers to ensure projects meet high quality and performance standards.

“This initiative shows how households can be part of the energy solution,” said Ari Matusiak, Founder and CEO of Rewiring America. “By helping families upgrade their homes with efficient electric technologies, we can lower costs, improve comfort, and optimize California’s grid capacity at the same time.”

PG&E will lead planning, analysis, and validation to evaluate customer impacts, system performance and long-term benefits.

A Model for California—and Beyond
SHARE represents a new way for utilities, customers and technology partners to work together to help meet electricity growth reliably and affordably through smarter utilization of the grid. This location-based approach is designed to inform future solutions for transmission constraints, local capacity challenges and rising demand across the electric system.

Over time, the proof of concept could expand beyond residential customers to include commercial, industrial, and utility-scale applications—supporting economic growth, improving grid utilization and lowering emissions.

PG&E and Rewiring America will begin reaching out to eligible customers starting fall 2026. SHARE is expected to run through 2027, with initial findings from the program expected to be shared in late 2026 or early 2027.

To learn more and explore program eligibility, visit https://energyshare.rewiringamerica.org/

About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG), is a combined natural gas and electric utility serving more than sixteen million people across 70,000 square miles in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit pge.compge.com/news, and pge.com/innovation.     

About Google
Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Google Cloud, Chrome, and YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely-known companies in the world. Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

About Rewiring America 
Rewiring America puts American households at the center of an affordable, resilient, all-electric future. We partner with policymakers, industry leaders, manufacturers, workers, and communities to strengthen the electric grid, lower energy prices, and build Homegrown Energy solutions for all.

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Caliber Public Safety Partners with Abel Police to Reduce Officer Report Writing Time with New BodyCam Narrative Feature

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New AI integration targets the number one administrative burden for patrol officers and delivers CJIS-compliant field tools while maintaining strict accountability through a human-in-the-loop model.

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Caliber Public Safety, a provider of integrated public safety technology to more than 700 law enforcement, fire/EMS, and corrections agencies nationwide, announced new BodyCam Narrative capabilities and a comprehensive suite of in-field AI tools within their Online RMS.

Caliber’s goal is to help agencies leverage AI responsibly to increase efficiency while maintaining transparency, accountability, and public trust. Designed to directly reduce the hours patrol officers spend on paperwork, this new feature delivers measurable business outcomes by targeting the most time-consuming part of the workday. By accelerating the reporting process, agencies can keep their personnel in the field and highly visible in the communities they serve.

The Problem BodyCam Narrative Solves
Report writing is consistently cited as the top administrative burden among law enforcement professionals. After a complex incident, officers often face “blank screen syndrome,” struggling to recall exact timelines and details after a long shift.

To solve this, Caliber Public Safety has integrated the specialized AI report-writing solution from Abel Police directly into the Caliber Online RMS. The BodyCam Narrative feature allows officers to access their body camera videos within the RMS narrative tools. The Abel Police technology then generates a preliminary draft based on the video and audio content, complete with embedded time-link references to specific video segments. Rather than starting from scratch, officers receive a working framework that they can easily verify against the footage.

Daniel Francis, Abel CEO, added: “We built our AI report-writing solution to help officers focus on policing rather than paperwork. Integrating our technology directly into the Caliber Online RMS puts this time-saving tool exactly where officers need it. We are proud to partner with Caliber to bring this capability to more agencies and help get officers back on patrol faster.”

Expanding the In-Field Toolkit
Beyond narrative generation, this partnership deploys the full Abel Police application to support officers during active calls. This comprehensive deployment includes three critical tools designed for the realities of patrol:

Abel Chat: Officers often need immediate clarification on state law, case law, or agency policy manuals while on a scene. Abel Chat provides a CJIS-compliant AI interface that delivers real answers with source citations. It is built to safely handle Criminal Justice Information (CJI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) directly on an officer’s computer or mobile phone.Abel Translate: Language barriers can delay investigations and complicate community interactions. Abel Translate offers CJIS-compliant voice translations across 80 languages. Crucially, it includes a built-in consent requirement that asks the subject for permission to use automated translation in their own language, protecting civil rights and agency liability.Abel Map: To improve situational awareness and officer safety, Abel Map provides a live-location interface that allows for easy location sharing agency-wide or within specific teams.

Configurable Workflows and Consistent Reporting
The system is highly adaptable to meet specific agency needs. It can process all types of video evidence, from street footage to formal interviews, and administrators can configure the system to restrict processing to specific video types if desired. Once a narrative is saved, the associated videos do not immediately disappear. They remain accessible within the system for a configured period, defaulting to 10 days, allowing officers to return and review footage if further supplements are needed.

Additionally, the BodyCam Narrative feature can be combined with charge-specific templates for recurring incident types, such as driving under the influence or domestic violence. This combination creates a highly consistent report structure across the entire agency. This similarity in reporting makes it significantly easier for supervisors to review submissions and for district and prosecuting attorneys to process cases efficiently.

The Human-in-the-Loop Differentiator
Caliber differentiates its approach to artificial intelligence through a strict human-in-the-loop model. The technology is designed to assist the officer, not replace officer judgment. Final accountability always remains with the authoring officer.

Josh Bryant, Director, Project Management with Caliber Public Safety, explained the operational impact: “Our focus is always on the practitioner. By partnering with Abel Police, we are giving officers a tool that significantly cuts down the time it takes to write a compliant, accurate report. Just as importantly, our strict human-in-the-loop validation ensures that the officer’s judgment remains the final authority on every single narrative.”

To guarantee this accountability, the Abel Police integration includes a unique validation step that sets it apart from other solutions. The system intentionally inserts obvious fictional statements, known internally as “Easter eggs,” into the initial AI-generated draft. This requires the officer to actively read, review, and edit the content before the system allows them to save the final report. Furthermore, the system tracks which users have acknowledged the AI-generated content, providing a clear audit trail for agency leadership and prosecuting attorneys.

Availability
The Abel Police suite, including BodyCam Narrative, Chat, Translate, and Map, is available as an agency-level activation, allowing administrators to assign access only to specific user roles. For agencies new to this technology, Abel Police offers structured pilot programs for five to six users. This allows departments to test the workflow and measure time savings before full deployment. Active pilots are currently underway in select agencies across the country, with users already experiencing the benefits of the integrated workflow.

Agencies interested in learning more about the BodyCam Narrative feature or the full Caliber Online RMS platform are encouraged to contact the Caliber Public Safety sales team via phone, email, or by visiting our website: (336) 397-5300 / info@caliberpublicsafety.com / www.caliberpublicsafety.com.

About Abel Police

Abel Police is a San Francisco company that builds the complete AI toolkit for police agencies, including Writer for report writing, Chat for CJIS-compliant and policy-aware AI chat, Translate for live in-field translations, and Citizen for online reporting for residents. Dedicated to the brave men and women of law enforcement, Abel provides the tools to help these professionals focus on protecting the communities they serve. https://abelpolice.com/ 

About Caliber Public Safety

Caliber Public Safety provides integrated technology solutions for law enforcement, fire/EMS, corrections, and 911 communications agencies. The Caliber platform includes CAD, Mobile, Online RMS, and JailTracker, all built by and for public safety professionals. With a focus on reliability, interoperability, and ease of use, Caliber serves hundreds of agencies across the country, helping first responders spend less time on technology and more time serving their communities. www.caliberpublicsafety.com 

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enCore Energy Corp. Featured in “The Nuclear Option” Documentary Series

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DALLAS, Sept. 3, 2026 /CNW/ — enCore Energy Corp. (NASDAQ: EU) (TSXV: EU) (the “Company” or “enCore”), America’s Clean Energy Company™, announced today the Company was featured in an episode of the CNA (Channel NewsAsia) investigative documentary series “The Nuclear Option – Episode 3: Racing for Resources” exploring nuclear energy. The episode is now available to watch online.

The series explores the evolution of nuclear energy, safety strategies, and the global race to secure nuclear fuel and resources. The episode highlights enCore’s Alta Mesa In-Situ Recovery (“ISR”) Uranium Central Processing Plant in South Texas and includes interviews with enCore team members:

Dain McCoig, Chief Operating OfficerDr. Dennis Stover, ISR Pioneer and Chair of the Company’s Technical Advisory CommitteeJesus (Jesse) R. Garza Jr., Plant Technician Level 3Mary Lou Rodriquez, Local Resident and Retired ISR Uranium Central Processing Plant Employee

“We are honored to be featured by CNA to be featured in an international documentary exploring nuclear energy. With the growing demand for domestically produced uranium, education on the current operations and safety advancements in the industry is crucial and we are proud to showcase our skilled team and operations.” said William M. Sheriff, Executive Chair.

The full episode is available to watch at: channelnewsasia.com/watch/nuclear-option/episode-3-racing-resources-6264326. enCore is featured between 24:31 and 34:48.

About enCore Energy Corp.

enCore Energy Corp., America’s Clean Energy Company™, is committed to providing clean, reliable, and affordable uranium to fuel the rapidly expanding U.S. nuclear energy needs. enCore’s team is led by industry experts with extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of uranium ISR operations and the nuclear fuel cycle. enCore exclusively uses ISR for uranium extraction, a minimally invasive, eco-friendly, and economically competitive mineral extraction technology co-developed by enCore’s leadership.

Building on enCore’s demonstrated and continuing success in South Texas, future projects in enCore’s planned project pipeline include the expansion of Alta Mesa to include the Alta Mesa East property, the Dewey Burdock project in South Dakota, and the Gas Hills project in Wyoming. The Company holds other assets, including non-core assets and proprietary databases. enCore is committed to working with local communities and indigenous governments to create positive impacts from corporate projects.

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LiveU Joins IBC Accelerator’s Smart Stories Consortium to Define an Open Standard for Story Context Interoperability

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LiveU connects live field acquisition to the Story Object Model, the open standard newsrooms are building so AI-enabled production tools work from one shared understanding of a story

HACKENSACK, N.J. , Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LiveU is participating in the IBC Accelerator Incubator 2026: Smart Stories – The New Knowledge Architecture for Content Production, an industry-wide initiative developing the Story Object Model (SOM), an open standard for structuring and sharing editorial story context across newsroom production systems. SOM creates one story that every tool works from – cutting time to air, giving every team a single view, and preventing errors caused by rewriting metadata between vendors.

This new consortium spans more than a dozen broadcasters, news organizations, standards bodies, and technology vendors, covering the full content chain from news gathering through to distribution. Champions include ITN, BBC, AP (Associated Press), Al Jazeera, Channel 4, Washington Post, BBC, ITV, Sky, EBU, NBCUniversal, Reuters, Scripps, and SMPTE. LiveU joins the project alongside technology participants including Google Cloud, Shure, Trint, Cognizant, EVS, CUEZ, Trint, AWS, Nuvelics, Electric Sheep, the Weather Company, Moments Lab, HyperContent AI, Octopus, Fonn Group and Vizrt.

A gap AI can’t close on its own

As content volume grows exponentially, broadcasters need better ways to discover and distribute it, and the ability to build one story into versions that span broadcast, social, and streaming. Today, producers hold that structure themselves, manually re-entering and aligning details. That slows production and raises the risk of error as stories advance toward air.

Smart Stories closes that gap with a new knowledge architecture for content production. MOS (Media Object Server), the broadcast industry’s long-standing operational standard, connects systems by moving data between them but is editorially blind. In contrast, SOM is designed to connect them editorially: it gives every tool in the chain a shared, structured description of what a story is, what has changed, and what matters. AI agents and production tools can act on that understanding without a producer relaying it by hand.

The Accelerator project also defines Skills, so editorial standards, compliance thresholds and house style stay encoded and owned by the newsroom.

LiveU’s role: a story-centric ingest workflow built around SOM

SOM extends LiveU’s story-centric automated ingest and acquisition workflow by adding another layer of interoperability to LiveU’s open EcoSystem. SOM enables editorial teams to share context in real time between vendors, leading to context-aware agentic workflows. LiveU Ingest today already shares live feeds and metadata with newsroom, editing, and distribution platforms outside LiveU.

“Live production has always depended on context traveling from the field into the newsroom and across every tool that touches a story,” said Roy Hasson, VP Product Marketing and SaaS Sales, LiveU. “For years, producers held that context in their heads, as AI agents take on more of the production workflow, they need that same context to work from. Smart Stories is the industry building the standard that makes story-centric workflows possible, so systems understand each other and agentic AI can support the editorial process. Our field-to-cloud technology powers that work today.”

One use case focuses on connecting acquisition units directly to the story. When a story breaks, LiveU suggests which unit to dispatch. That unit’s feed carries the story’s context into the cloud. Transcription and clip generation build on that context automatically. One person then confirms the story in a shared console.

Hasson continued, “We are committed to open industry standards, because they increase collaboration and interoperability between vendors across the production chain. That commitment shows up in LiveU’s active participation in initiatives like SOM, MXL, and TAMS – open projects that keep our IP-video EcoSystem connected to outside tools and platforms.”

Deliverables and live demo at IBC2026

The consortium will deliver three outputs before IBC2026 in Amsterdam, the Story Object Model specification, a Skills reference architecture and a live multi-vendor demonstration. The demonstration takes two forms: a filmed, end-to-end breaking-news pipeline, and a live event where a story changes mid-production, and every connected system responds in real time, with a human editor giving final sign-off. The consortium will also publish a three-tier integration guide, giving vendors a defined path to adopt SOM.

LiveU will join the consortium’s live showcase on Saturday, September 12th:

Smart Stories Incubator showcase: 4:00–5:00pm, Future Tech Stage, Hall 14Accelerator networking reception: 5:00–6:00pm, immediately following the showcase

Network Control: Your Connection, Your Choice

LiveU is also participating in this second IBC2026 Accelerator Project, using open 5G network APIs to turn 5G from best-effort connectivity into a programmable, predictable and reliable production resource.

Network Control: Your Connection, Your Choice unites the BBC, EBU, DAZN, France Télévisions, GSMA, RAI Italy, RTL Germany, TV2 Denmark, Vodafone and Telefónica as Champions, alongside LiveU, Neutral Wireless, Haivision, SliceFinity and Vonage as Participants, with the University of Strathclyde serving as Academic Partner. Together, the group explores how open network APIs can help applications with specialized requirements interact with standardized network capabilities designed to meet defined quality requirements, supporting reliable and business-critical media production workflows over 5G.

LiveU’s full IP-video EcoSystem will be on display at Stand 7.C24. To arrange a meeting or demonstration, visit https://get.liveu.tv/ibc-2026/

The IBC Accelerator Zone is located in Hall 14, D.25. The Accelerator PoC Showcases for the above projects will be on Saturday September 12th 16-17.00hrs (Smart Stories) and Sunday September 13th 11.30am-12.30pm (Network Control) on the Future Tech Stage, also in Hall 14.

About LiveU 

LiveU is the global leader in live IP-video solutions, transforming live video into real value. From breaking news and major sports events to enterprise communications and public safety, LiveU enables reliable and efficient live production and visual intelligence at scale. LiveU offers a comprehensive, modular IP-video EcoSystem spanning the entire live production workflow. Our solutions are powered by the resilient, low-latency LRT™ (LiveU Reliable Transport) protocol and further strengthened by LiveU IQ (LIQ™), which leverages AI–driven connectivity for optimal performance. With a strong focus on automation, LiveU reduces manual processes to help organizations deliver innovative, story-centric live productions – streamlining scheduling, content creation, ingest and orchestration. Supporting digital–first, hybrid and cloud–based workflows, LiveU provides flexible, scalable and future-proof solutions that support remote productions, on-premises/cloud integration, and multi-platform distribution. Actus Digital, a LiveU company, and the value leader in its space, combines quality assurance monitoring and compliance logging in a unified, affordable Actus X platform. Trusted by over 5,000 customers in more than 150 countries, LiveU is an American company, headquartered in Hackensack, New Jersey, and a multi-award winner. For more information, visit www.liveu.tv, or follow us on X, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn or Instagram.

Press contacts:
Kate Ford (Int’l)
+44-7740 948065
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Joyce Essig (Americas)
201-906-9367
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