Provenance Record

Tight, well-sourced energy News piece (521 words) that distinguishes PG&E's self-reported milestone from the independent VPP and policy reporting, and notes the interconnections-vs-active-systems and undisclosed-capacity caveats.

All 3 snapshots read from disk (HTTP 200). source-0 (PG&E via PR Newswire) confirms the 1-million-interconnections / most-of-any-US-utility milestone, 'more than sixteen million people across 70,000 square miles', the 1990s->2010s adoption curve with 'more than half a million new interconnections between 2020-2025' and '70,000 new solar installations annually over the past two years', the Glickman 'PG&E supports solar at every scale …' quote, the Sunrun Paul Dickson 'Working together, Sunrun and PG&E …' quote, and the VPP test specifics ('for two hours (from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. on July 29, 2025) the VPP delivered 535 megawatts'). source-1 (CleanTechnica) confirms the ~100,000 Tesla/Sunrun batteries, the PG&E/SCE/SDG&E involvement, the verbatim PG&E 'largest test of its kind ever done in California - and maybe the world' quote, and the Australia-VPP counterpoint. source-2 (Utility Dive) confirms NEM 3.0 (approved 2022, effective for applications on/after April 15), the reduced export compensation, and the Wood Mackenzie 41% contraction / 66%-83% sales-decline figures.

Every figure, name, and quote traces verbatim to its cited source. The VPP test details are correctly cited to the PG&E release (which carries them) while the battery count and multi-utility involvement are cited to CleanTechnica, and the 'maybe the world' quote with its Australia caveat is attributed via CleanTechnica's coverage rather than presented as PG&E's unchallenged claim. The two distinct '70,000' figures (square miles vs annual installs) are not conflated.

Fully-verified distributed-solar News piece with careful separation of vendor claims from independent reporting. APPROVE.