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| Aug 29, 2026 | McNerney’s Bill to Protect Ratepayers from Utilities’ Abuses Wins Approval from Legislature | The California Legislature today approved Sen. Jerry McNerney’s SB 327, which would protect ratepayers by strengthening oversight of investor-owned utilities (IOUs) and barring IOUs from using ratepayer funds to fight local efforts to creat... |
| Aug 14, 2026 | Electric Ride & Drive Expo Returns to North Natomas with EV and E-Bike Test Drives | Electric Ride and Drive Expo
Jibe, SMUD and Councilmember Lisa Kaplan invite residents to test-drive electric vehicles and ride commuter and cargo e-bikes in a no-pressure environment. SACRAMENTO, CA, UNITED STATES, August 14, 2026 /EINPres... |
| Dec 1, 2025 | Victory! Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program In Sacramento | A California judge ordered the end of a dragnet law enforcement program that surveilled the electrical smart meter data of thousands of Sacramento residents.
The Sacramento County Superior Court ruled that the surveillance program run by th... |
| Aug 14, 2025 | Sacramento Municipal Utility District Continues Progression to Clean Energy by Engaging PlanetBids Procurement Platform | PlanetBids will help SMUD conduct fair procurement activities to enhance quality of life for customers and community while responsibly utilizing public funds.
We are so honored to partner with Sacramento Municipal Utility District in their ... |
| Nov 20, 2024 | World-Renowned Architectural Firm Gensler Partners with Studio T Arts & Entertainment to Expand $30M 'Innovation Factory,' Empowering Underserved Youth | (Interior rendering of STAE-IF's Blackbox Theatre; Image courtesy of Gensler)
Award-winning founder Tamaira "Miss Tee" Sandifer is recognized as LA Times Inspirational Woman Leader and Stevie® Awards Winner; BEHR Paints Joins Init... |
| Aug 22, 2024 | SMUD and North Natomas Jibe announce Electric Ride and Drive Expo | Electric Ride and Drive Expo
SMUD, North Natomas Jibe and Councilmember Lisa Kaplan host free test ride event SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, USA, August 22, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Steer toward a clean energy future by EV or e-bike!
On Saturday... |
| Aug 17, 2023 | A Strategic Roadmap: Immediate Steps To Meet Decarbonization Goals | By Mike Orth President, Governments and Environment market sector Black & Veatch. |
| Jul 24, 2023 | Batteries Plus, Swell Energy increase access to solar benefits in Sacramento, Calif. | Batteries Plus, Swell Energy increase access to solar benefits in Sacramento, Calif.
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Batteries Plus has launched a new pilot initiative with Swell Energy to pr... |
| Dec 27, 2022 | SMUD and Swell Energy Partner on Virtual Power Plant That Strengthens the Grid With Renewables and Compensates Customers | Leading grid services developer to aggregate residential solar and battery storage and boost system reliability in the Sacramento region
To help deliver on its 2030 Zero Carbon Plan to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from its power suppl... |
| Dec 22, 2022 | Swell Energy teams with SMUD on virtual power plant program | Swell Energy teams with SMUD on virtual power plant program
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Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is partnering with Swell Energy to be the agg... |
| Dec 22, 2022 | California utility to deploy 20 MWh storage and 10 MW rooftop solar VPP system | Swell Energy, a virtual power plant and distributed energy integrator, partnered with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District to aggregate 20 MWh of residential battery capacity and 10 MW of co-located solar power capacity into a resident... |
| Nov 10, 2022 | Automation tool helps speed rooftop solar connection to the grid | As solar energy ramps up in the United States, interconnection queues have grown to almost unmanageable levels. The growth will continue, as the U.S. strives to meet the Biden administration’s goal of 80% clean energy by 2030. In January, a... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | SDG&E will not negotiate a 1-year extension on San Diego’s franchise agreement | The drama surrounding the city of San Diego’s soon-to-expire electric and gas franchise agreement with San Diego Gas & Electric intensified Thursday when the utility, in a letter sent to city officials late in the afternoon, said it wil... |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Morning Brief: Utilities across the US battle equitable net metering and value-of-solar | SMUD, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, commissioned a study that found the net energy metering (NEM) credit should be reduced to 3 to 7 cents/kWh. CalSSA finds that the study was flawed and designed to discredit the value of custo... |
| Aug 11, 2020 | Faulconer goes ahead with potential bidding on new San Diego franchise agreement ‘in the coming weeks’ | Despite a stalemate on a pair of motions at San Diego’s city council meeting last week, Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s office will proceed with a bidding process the city hopes will lead to multiple companies competing to win a new franchise agree... |
| Jul 17, 2020 | Let the debate begin on San Diego’s franchise agreement for electric and gas services | The arduous process of obtaining a new electric and gas franchise agreement within the city limits of San Diego has taken its first legislative step, with the city’s Environment Committee voting to accept a consultant’s report on a 3-1 vote... |
| Jun 19, 2020 | A plan to install electric truck charging stations up and down the West Coast | Most of the attention on adopting electric vehicles is focused on passenger cars. California, for example, has set a goal to have at least 5 million zero-emission vehicles on the state’s highways by 2030.
But the called-for transition also ... |
| Feb 24, 2020 | Morning Brief: How clean is energy storage? New York clean energy and California solar mandate under attack | Is energy storage as clean as we think? As battery storage applications grow, there has been increasing interest in the carbon emissions associated with those applications…there have been few studies to characterize emissions associated wit... |
| Apr 23, 2019 | SMUD withdraws anti-solar Grid Access Charge | One constant in the solar industry is attempts by utilities to either kill rooftop solar outright or at least claw back revenue from their customers who adopt solar. And from our work in covering this subject, we’ve seen it apply to publicl... |
| Jun 9, 2010 | PG&E loses its $46M Prop. 16 battle in California: A win for grid innovation | Despite a massive $46 million campaign, Proposition 16 — the California ballot measure backed by utility Pacific Gas & Electric — failed in yesterday’s election with 52.5 percent of voters saying no to the company’s attempt to block loc... |
| Jun 9, 2010 | PG&E loses its $46M Prop. 16 battle in California: A win for grid innovation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Despite a massive $46 million campaign, Propositi... |
| Jun 23, 2009 | Silver Spring signs deal to make Sacramento meters smart | Silver Spring Networks, one of the major players in the smart meter space, announced today that it signed a deal with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District to deploy a wireless network connecting smart meters for 600,000 homes and busin... |
| Jun 23, 2009 | Silver Spring signs deal to make Sacramento meters smart | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Silver Spring Networks, one of the major players ... |
| White House announces new ‘EV corridors’ to accelerate deployment of electric vehicles and charging stations | The Obama Administration announced today a new series of initiatives to accelerate deployment of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure. The main announcement is the creation of 48 national EV charging corridors on 25,000 miles acros... |
| Ford, GM, BMW partner with SMUD on managed EV charging pilot | Automakers Ford, GM, and BMW are announcing a new managed EV charging pilot program with SMUD, the sixth-largest not-for-profit electric service provider.
Ford, GM, and BMW are partnering with SMUD on a managed electric vehicle (EV) chargin... |
| EGEB: GM plans to invest $1 billion in its Mexico site to build electric vehicles | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
GM says it plans to invest $1 billion in a plant in Mexico to build electric vehicles.
SMUD, Sacramento’s electricity provider, is paying people to become certified solar PV installers.
Underst... |
| How two college friends launched a company that has helped save 32 terawatt hours of energy and more than $3 billion in energy bills | Alex Laskey and his college friend Dan Yates founded Opower in 2007, a company which works with utility companies to help their customers save energy and money.
In 2014, Opower went public and in 2016, it was acquired by software giant Orac... |