Un futuro de energía limpia

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.

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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.

Como líder en innovación climática, SMUDestá ayudando a posicionar la región de Sacramento como un destino para compañías visionarias y conscientes del medio ambiente, y un modelo para que otros en todo el país lo sigan.

A través de la implementación de nuestro Plan de Impacto Comunitario, estamos trabajando para garantizar que nuestros clientes de menos recursos sean parte de este viaje y cosechen los beneficios de un futuro de energía limpia.

Leer el Zero Carbon Plan para 2030

Progreso en la reducción de carbono

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.

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Reportes de progreso archivados

• 2023 Reporte de Progreso del Plan de Carbono Cero
• 2022 Reporte de Progreso del Plan de Carbono Cero

¿Por qué SMUD se centra en reducir las emisiones de carbono?

Las emisiones de carbono contribuyen al calentamiento global, lo que provoca fenómenos meteorológicos extremos, aumento del nivel del mar y otros desafíos medioambientales que tienen efectos devastadores tanto en las comunidades actuales como en las futuras generaciones

Vivimos en una de las ciudades más contaminadas del país. Un reporte reciente de la Asociación Americana del Pulmón otorgó a la zona de Sacramento-Roseville una F basada en días de niveles insalubres y peligrosos de contaminación del aire en la capa de ozono.

Reducir el carbono trae beneficios tanto a nivel local como global. Mejora la calidad del aire local, la salud general y apoya el desarrollo económico mediante la creación de nuevas oportunidades de empleo en energía limpia.

No podemos hacer esto sin usted

Nuestros clientes, nuestra comunidad y nuestros socios están en el corazón de lo que hacemos. Al reducir las emisiones de carbono, estamos ayudando a crear una región más limpia y saludable para todos.

Todos somos parte de la solución. Ofrecemos generosos reembolsos e incentivos, programas, herramientas digitales, educación y muchos recursos para que nuestros clientes puedan tomar decisiones inteligentes en energía, de modo que todos puedan actuar y así avanzar hacia un futuro más brillante y limpio.