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JULY 18, 2020
The SMUD (2020 Sacramento Municipal Utility District) Board of Directors adopted a climate emergency declaration that commits to working toward an ambitious goal of delivering carbon-neutral electricity by 2030. Furthermore, SMUD has reduced the carbon intensity of its power mix, which is now 50% carbon-free on average.
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NOVEMBER 22, 2017
However, discussions also are underway in Sacramento to further tighten those requirements to 50% as early as 2025 and 100% by 2045. The study will examine the limitations of intermittent renewable options, such as wind and solar energy, which are only available at certain hours of the day.
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DECEMBER 11, 2014
The first hydrogen refueling station in Northern California was dedicated in West Sacramento. Geysers Power Company: $3 million to investigate if geothermal plants could vary output to balance other intermittent renewable resources to increase the amounted of wind and solar used by the grid.
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JUNE 1, 2012
will receive $5 million to develop, build and test a pilot facility to demonstrate an innovative gasification process to produce renewable biomass diesel from local municipal solid waste, including green refuse, railroad ties, construction and demolition waste, and plastics that typically wind up in landfills. SacPort Biofuels Corp.
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JULY 10, 2019
Johnson Matthey, Billingham, UK Enabling Autonomous Wind Plants through Consensus Control, $250,000 RES Group, Broomfield, Colo. Vivint Solar, Lehi, Utah Wind Turbine Drivetrain Reliability Assessment and Remaining Useful Life Prediction, $100,000 WindESCo, Boston, Mass. Raleigh, N.C. SunPower, San Jose, Calif.
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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009
Sacramento Bee.
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SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
By allowing utility operators to pump water up to a dam or impoundment during periods of low electricity demand and release water during times of peak electricity demand, pumped storage hydropower improves the reliability of electric grids and helps increase the use of variable renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power.
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