While headlines this week laud Pacific Gas and Electric for its commitment to energy storage, it is mostly doing as it is told by the California Public Utilities Commission, which is showing increasing confidence these days as it accelerates its plans for energy storage on the CAISO grid. Because of the CPUC policies and a rising expectation behind energy storage, PG&E said it will be pushing forward 9 projects for a total of 1,600 MW of utility projects for its second tranche of investments into lithium ion energy storage. This is a marked improvement over plans that have been on file from 2018 through to 2022, which pointed to PG&E having just 2,288 MW by 2030 – that is now…