청정에너지의 미래

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.

국가를 선도하는 기업

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.

기후 혁신의 선두주자로서 SMUD는 Sacramento 지역을 미래지향적이고 환경을 생각하는 기업들이 선호하는 지역으로 자리매김하고, 전국적으로 본받을 만한 모범 사례로 만드는 데 기여하고 있습니다.

지역사회 영향력 계획을 실행함으로써 가장 자원이 부족한 고객들이 이 여정에 동참하고 청정 에너지의 미래가 주는 혜택을 누릴 수 있도록 노력하고 있습니다.

탄소 제로 계획 읽기 2030

탄소 감축 진행 상황

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.

2024 진행 보고서를 읽으세요

보관된 진행 보고서

• 2023 탄소 제로 계획 진행 보고서
• 2022 탄소 제로 계획 진행 보고서

SMUD는 왜 탄소 배출량 감축에 집중하는가?

탄소 배출은 지구 온난화에 기여하며, 이는 극심한 기상 현상, 해수면 상승 및 기타 환경 문제로 이어져 현재 사회뿐 아니라 미래 세대에게도 파괴적인 영향을 미칩니다.

우리는 이 나라에서 가장 오염이 심한 도시 중 하나에 살고 있습니다. 미국 폐협회의 최근 보고서에 따르면 Sacramento-Roseville 지역은 오존층의 대기 오염 수준이 건강에 해롭거나 위험한 수준으로 지속된 날이 많아 F 등급을 받았습니다.

탄소 배출량 감축은 지역적으로나 전 세계적으로 여러 가지 이점을 가져다줍니다. 이는 지역 대기 질과 전반적인 건강을 개선하고, 새로운 청정에너지 관련 일자리를 창출하여 경제 발전을 지원합니다.

여러분 없이는 이 일을 할 수 없습니다.

저희 사업의 중심에는 고객, 지역사회 및 파트너가 있습니다. 탄소 배출량을 줄임으로써 우리는 모두를 위해 더 깨끗하고 건강한 지역을 만드는 데 기여하고 있습니다.

우리 모두가 해결책의 일부입니다. 저희는 고객 여러분이 현명한 에너지 선택을 할 수 있도록 푸짐한 리베이트와 인센티브, 프로그램, 디지털 도구, 교육 및 다양한 자료를 제공하여 모두가 더 밝고 깨끗한 미래를 향해 나아갈 수 있도록 돕습니다.