PG&E Helps Bay Area Developer Speed Up Attainable, All-Electric Homes

AlphaX RE Capital had ambitious plans for new housing in 2025 and beyond.

But the Cupertino developer would need PG&E’s help to reach those goals.

Now, AlphaX is crediting improvements in PG&E’s new-business processes for the timely construction of 60 all-electric homes in 2025, with roughly 200 additional homes in its 2026 pipeline.

The all-electric homes are a mix of single-family homes and accessory dwelling units in the South Bay and on the Peninsula.

AlphaX focuses on attainable homeownership opportunities, including for the “missing middle” market segment. The developer’s residential communities include a mix of single-family residences, townhomes and accessory dwelling units across the South Bay and Peninsula.

As California continues to push for both increased housing production and electrification, AlphaX said its collaboration with PG&E is a practical example of how closer coordination with utilities can speed up construction of new communities.

“Our mission is to expand more attainable homeownership through efficient, high-quality community development,” said Stephanie Yi, founder and CEO of AlphaX RE Capital. “California has made meaningful progress on the policy side, and the real opportunity now is to translate that progress into homes and communities people can actually live in. PG&E’s collaboration has improved visibility, reduced administrative friction, and helped us execute with greater certainty as we scale all-electric housing production.”

PG&E Service Planning & Design Senior Director Kevin Douty said his team shares a commitment to meeting California’s housing and climate goals.

“AlphaX is doing terrific work to provide Californians with attainable, all-electric homes,” Douty said. “We’re thrilled that our collaboration with AlphaX is helping the company bring hundreds of new homes to the Bay Area. We look forward to continuing this partnership as part of our broader effort to support developers across our service area.”

New tools, closer collaboration

AlphaX General Partner Angelo Farooq said three new Service Planning & Design tools have been especially valuable to the company’s success.

First, the Project Status Tracker lets customers see in real time what action items are pending on each side.

Second, PG&E added a Recurring Customer Meeting feature to its customer application portal. The option lets customers set up regular meetings with their new-business representative. It helps AlphaX avoid “ad hoc, project-by-project communication,” Farooq said.

Third, a Customer Escalation option in the Your Projects application portal lets customers connect quickly with Service Planning leaders when issues arise. For AlphaX, it provides a concrete path to fix time-sensitive issues.

Before PG&E added these tools, coordinating with Service Planning & Design often required repeated emails and phone calls to keep projects moving. It was a time-consuming process that didn’t always quickly resolve issues.

“Collectively, these improvements have reduced administrative friction, improved scheduling certainty, and helped accelerate project delivery,” Farooq said. “For a homebuilder scaling operations across multiple communities, that kind of predictability matters. It strengthens internal planning, improves coordination across teams, and helps projects move more efficiently from construction to energization.”

As its project volume increased, AlphaX also had ideas on how it could work with PG&E to speed up connections.

The goal was to give PG&E key project details upfront. That information would include project locations, expected energy demand and target construction timelines. The end result was an improved working relationship across PG&E teams including Engineering Design, Permitting and Field Inspections.

“That mutual understanding has been the foundation of everything we’ve built together since,” Yi said. “It has given us a much clearer picture of where homebuilder readiness can influence utility timelines, and where stronger alignment can create better outcomes for everyone involved.”

Happier customers, reduced wait times

PG&E’s collaboration with AlphaX comes amid a two-year effort to work more closely with developers across the company’s service area.

In July 2023, PG&E signed a memorandum of understanding with the California Building Industry Association to guide improvements.

Commitments included advance scheduling to meet customers’ construction timelines and centralized support for escalations.

PG&E also partnered with the association on a series of workshops and webinars to help developers better understand the company’s processes, and to get feedback from developers on process improvements.

PG&E and the association continue to meet monthly to discuss further improvements.

The partnership has paid off in:

• A record overall Service Planning customer satisfaction score of 9 out of 10 in the first quarter of 2026
• A 33% decrease in engineering design times
• A 40% decrease in application-intake times

AlphaX officials have participated in PG&E-California Building Industry Association workshops and webinars, as well as meetings of the technical committee.

“For a homebuilder scaling its operations, these forums serve a function that no other channel provides,” Yi said. “They create dedicated space for candid, two-way dialogue about process challenges, while also giving homebuilders a better understanding of the regulatory and resource constraints PG&E operates under. That kind of transparency helps builders improve our own practices as well.”

Yi said AlphaX is encouraged by the progress it has seen and looks forward to continuing to work with PG&E on additional improvements in 2026 and beyond.

“The achievements of the past year show what is possible when homebuilders and utilities work together effectively,” Yi said. “If California is serious about expanding more attainable homeownership and building cleaner communities, this kind of coordination should become a much more common part of how housing gets delivered.”