The California Public Utilities Commission authorized San Diego Gas & Electric Company to recover the entire costs for its procurement of 83.5 megawatts of energy storage and 4.5 megawatts of demand response, as the utility scrambles to lock in supplies after the closure of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, according to a June 7 order. SDGE secured three third-party contracts for storage totalling 13.5 megawatts, with Enel Green Power North America, Advanced Microgrid Solutions, and Powin Energy. It also secured two utility-owned storage contracts totalling 70 megawatts, with AES Corporation and RES Americas Construction. OhmConnect will administer the demand response program. Enel Green Power is a unit of Rome-based Enel Spa. SDGE’s procurement of energy storage serves to fill in a supply gap following the retirement of the two remaining reactors at Edison International’s San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. It also goes toward a target set by the commission in October 2013 for the state’s three public utilities together to contract for 1.325 gigawatts of storage by 2024.