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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.

Ua ib tug thawj coj hauv kev tsim kho tshiab txog huab cua, SMUD pab txhawb kom thaj tsam Sacramento ua qhov chaw xaiv rau cov lag luam uas xav txog yav tom ntej, paub txog ib puag ncig thiab yog tus qauv rau lwm tus thoob plaws lub tebchaws ua raws.

Los ntawm kev siv peb lub Zej Zog Kev Npaj Ua Haujlwm, peb tab tom ua haujlwm kom ntseeg tau tias peb cov neeg siv khoom tsis txaus ntseeg feem ntau yog ib feem ntawm txoj kev taug kev no thiab sau cov txiaj ntsig ntawm lub zog huv si yav tom ntej.

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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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• 2023 Zero Carbon Plan Progress Report
• 2022 Zero Carbon Plan Progress Report

Vim li cas SMUD thiaj tsom mus rau kev txo cov pa roj carbon dioxide?

Cov pa roj carbon ua rau lub ntiaj teb sov, uas ua rau muaj huab cua phem heev, dej hiav txwv nce siab thiab lwm yam teeb meem ib puag ncig uas muaj kev cuam tshuam loj heev rau cov zej zog niaj hnub no thiab cov tiam neeg yav tom ntej.

Peb nyob hauv ib lub nroog uas muaj kuab paug tshaj plaws hauv lub tebchaws. Daim ntawv tshaj tawm tsis ntev los no los ntawm American Lung Association tau muab thaj chaw Sacramento-Roseville ua F raws li cov hnub uas muaj huab cua tsis zoo thiab tsis muaj kev nyab xeeb hauv cov txheej ozone.

Kev txo cov pa roj carbon coj cov txiaj ntsig zoo rau hauv zos thiab thoob ntiaj teb. Nws txhim kho peb cov huab cua hauv zos, kev noj qab haus huv tag nrho thiab txhawb nqa kev txhim kho kev lag luam los ntawm kev tsim cov haujlwm tshiab uas siv hluav taws xob huv.

Peb ua tsis tau qhov no yog tsis muaj koj

Peb cov neeg siv khoom, zej zog thiab cov neeg koom tes yog lub hauv paus ntawm yam peb ua. Los ntawm kev txo cov pa roj carbon dioxide, peb tab tom pab tsim kom muaj ib cheeb tsam huv dua thiab noj qab haus huv dua rau txhua tus.

Peb txhua tus yog ib feem ntawm txoj kev daws teeb meem. Peb muab cov nyiaj rov qab thiab cov nyiaj txhawb siab ntau, cov kev pab cuam, cov cuab yeej digital, kev kawm thiab ntau yam peev txheej rau peb cov neeg siv khoom los txiav txim siab siv hluav taws xob ntse kom txhua tus tuaj yeem ua cov haujlwm uas pab peb txhua tus mus rau yav tom ntej ci ntsa iab thiab huv si.