A Celebration for SolarShares

DGS Director Daniel C. Kim joined state, regional and city officials at SMUD today to celebrate the recent completion of Large Commercial SolarShares agreements amounting to over 93 megawatts (MW) of solar capacity that will be used to power facilities in Sacramento County with 203 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of solar electricity annually.
Published on January 30, 2018
in Green , Environmental , Energy , Sustainability

Agreements that were recognized today included: DGS, Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District and Sacramento Area Sewer District, Sacramento County Department of General Services, City of Sacramento, Los Rios Community College District, and San Juan Unified School District.

In total, the agreements encompass enough solar electricity to power approximately 22,000 homes per year. These commitments by public agencies in the Sacramento region to power their facilities with clean, renewable energy directly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve local air quality.

SMUD’s Large Commercial SolarShares program allows large businesses in the Sacramento region to purchase solar energy directly from SMUD. SMUD’s SolarShares program is the largest utility green pricing community solar program of its kind in the nation.