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Local Small Business Spotlights
OPTCONNECT
Advancing Clean Transportation
Following a competitive solicitation process, OptConnect, a certified
minority-owned business, was selected last year for a contract to provide
our Fleet team with onsite electric vehicle (EV) charging management
software. OptConnect’s platform will support our efforts to expand our
fleet EV infrastructure and streamline charging operations.
PANGEA BIOLOGICAL
Leveraging Four-Legged Lawn Mowers for
Wildfire Prevention
When it comes to wildfire risk mitigation, innovation often means
looking to nature for solutions. That’s exactly what SDG&E’s Goat
Grazing Program exemplifies by deploying agile grazers to clear
brush on steep hills and rocky slopes around transmission corridors.
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VALDES LANGUAGE SERVICES
Making Information Accessible in Multiple Languages
Behind the scenes, Pangea Biological, a certified woman-owned
In order to communicate effectively with our diverse customer base
checks during grazing to ensure compliance with natural-resource
and comply with regulations, SDG&E translates many of our materials,
permits. Their detailed monitoring has helped our Land Services
such as notices on Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) and flyers on bill
and Environmental Services teams confidently integrate prescribed
discount programs, into multiple languages. Working as a subcontractor,
grazing into wildfire prevention and brush management strategies.
Valdes Language Services — a certified woman-owned business based in
Before 2021, goat grazing was rarely used in the way SDG&E is
San Diego — has provided translations in Vietnamese, Chinese and Arabic,
deploying it. Today, it is recognized as a sustainable vegetation
helping SDG&E deliver critical information to multilingual communities.
management.
business, plays a critical role in making this program possible.
Pangea conducts pre-grazing biological surveys and performs spot
