清洁能源的未来

For decades, SMUD has been a leader in clean energy, innovation, technology, renewable energy and customer programs. Today, our 2030 Zero Carbon Plan, adopted in 2021, serves as our official Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). We’ve made significant progress on our 2030 Zero Carbon Plan by committing to more than 1,400 megawatts of new clean energy resources since 2022 and advancing major solar and storage projects that move our region closer to a carbon‑free future.

A lot has changed since we adopted the Zero Carbon Plan more than 5 years ago. Rising resource costs, tariffs, supply chain challenges, loss of renewable tax credits, incentives and millions of dollars in grants are a huge challenge to the affordability of our Zero Carbon Plan. Advances in technology, particularly hydrogen and carbon capture and sequestration, have been much slower than expected. Our natural gas plants are needed to ensure we continue to provide reliable and affordable service to our customers. Our plants are some of the cleanest and most efficient in the state, which means they support regional decarbonization because they produce less emissions than other plants. Despite these headwinds, our progress is significant.

We expect to get 80% of the way to zero carbon in our power supply with all we have planned today and our commitment to decarbonization remains firm. We’re taking a balanced approach to continuous decarbonization that prioritizes affordability, reliability and sustainability. This fall, we’re launching our updated IRP process, a public, data‑driven effort to holistically reassess evolving conditions and refine our long‑term roadmap for reducing carbon emissions to reflect today’s realities. We’ll move forward with a focus on balancing affordability, reliability and sustainability for our customers.

引领全国

Our transition to a clean energy future is anchored on our longstanding commitment to provide safe and reliable power with rates among the lowest in California. We believe successful and continuous decarbonization requires balancing environmental goals with affordability, grid reliability and the needs of our growing region. We won’t compromise on this commitment.

作为气候创新领域的领导者， SMUD正在帮助Sacramento地区成为具有前瞻性思维和环保意识的企业的首选目的地，并成为全国其他地区效仿的榜样。

通过实施我们的社区影响计划，我们正在努力确保资源最匮乏的客户参与这一旅程并从清洁能源未来中获益。

阅读 2030 零碳计划

碳减排进展

We’ve made great progress since developing our 2030 Zero Carbon Plan in 2021. We’ve completed several projects in solar, battery storage and geothermal, adding about 590 megawatts of new renewable and storage capacity with 840 megawatts more signed under power purchase agreement to come online between 2026-2030 and thousands more clean energy megawatts under evaluation. That’s a total of about 1,430 megawatts, which is 130% of what we’ve added in the past 2 decades, in about half the time. 

While proven clean technologies such as wind, solar, battery storage, geothermal energy and demand response continue to advance our carbon reduction goals, some emerging technologies have not matured as quickly as anticipated. Technologies such as hydrogen and carbon capture and sequestration continue to hold long-term promise but are not yet developing at the scale, cost or pace originally expected.

As part of our IRP planning process, we're reassessing these assumptions and evaluating the most practical, cost-effective pathways to continue reducing emissions while maintaining affordability and reliability.

Partnerships and grants are also critical as we scale new and emerging technologies, while keeping our rates among the lowest in California. Through a variety of grants, SMUD and our partners have secured critical funding to help deploy advanced smart meter grid technologies and increase the number of EV chargers at multi-family complexes, among other things. However, the funding landscape continues to evolve. In some cases, federal grant opportunities that utilities and communities were counting on have been reduced, delayed or withdrawn, creating additional challenges for deploying emerging technologies and infrastructure.

阅读2024进度报告

存档进度报告

• 2023 零碳计划进展报告
• 2022 零碳计划进展报告

为什么SMUD致力于减少碳排放？

碳排放导致全球变暖，进而引发极端天气事件、海平面上升和其他环境挑战，对当代社区和子孙后代造成毁灭性影响。

我们生活在全国污染最严重的城市之一。美国肺脏协会最近的一份报告根据臭氧层空气污染不健康和不安全水平的天数，将Sacramento - Roseville地区评为 F 级。

减少碳排放对本地和全球都有益处。它改善了我们当地的空气质量和整体健康，并通过创造新的清洁能源就业机会来支持经济发展。

没有你们，我们做不到

我们的客户、社区和合作伙伴是我们工作的核心。通过减少碳排放，我们正在帮助创造一个更清洁、更健康的地区，造福所有人。

我们都是解决方案的一部分。我们为客户提供丰厚的回扣和奖励、项目、数字工具、教育和许多资源，帮助客户做出明智的能源选择，让每个人都能采取行动，帮助我们所有人走向更光明、更清洁的未来。