The Sacramento Municipal Utility District will receive 100 MW of geothermal energy from Calpine’s 725 MW facility in Sonoma County...
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District has signed a long-term contract for 200 megawatts of solar power paired with a 100...
A Duke Energy pilot would use three cutting-edge electric vehicle technologies, a flat subscription rate, in-vehicle communications, and some utility...
California regulators and utilities are finally beginning to seize the emerging virtual power plant (VPP) opportunity that allows aggregations of...
An innovative proposal from Vote Solar and other solar advocates would demonstrate that customer-sited solar and storage can provide reliability...
The California Energy Commission accelerates the permitting of large storage projects to get more power online by next fall. The action...
The Sacramento Municipal Utilities District is expected to approve Sept. 16 a novel solution for crediting customer-owned solar, which solar...
A divided California Public Utilities Commission green lights a $240 million utility electric vehicle charging program to help get the state...
California has mandated its state power providers reach 60% renewables by 2030, but the Sacramento Municipal Utility District plans to...
Legislation to speed up plodding local permitting for home vehicle chargers and commercial charging stations to ensure 250,000 chargers are...
The SMUD Board adopted a plan the evening of April 27 to have the utility be carbon neutral by the...
State utility regulators scale back increases in gas fired power in their new decision seeking emergency supply and load reduction...
By the end of this decade, the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power can reliably, equitably, and affordably provide...
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions produced by the electricity sector dropped 2.8%, or by 150 million metric tons, last year compared...
High temperatures and fires over the Labor Day weekend put the grid to the test. While the California Independent System...
Months of speculation as to who would be the CA grid operator’s new chief ends with the naming of Bonneville...
The increased hours people are spending at home have driven up residential power demand in California, and with it, utility...
A coalition of utilities in California, Oregon and Washington have developed a plan to advance the electrification of medium- and...
The pandemic has slowed down solar projects but there is an unprecedented increase in new installed capacity in 2019. This...
Editor's Note: SMUD responds to criticism of its Solar Shares program raised in a March 2 editorial by local solar...