A mass power outage is currently being reported by SMUD throughout Sacramento and adjacent areas, according to their website. Currently, almost 30k people are currently without power. The current ...

Understanding the Context

Patch on MSN: Patch AM: Is your Sacramento neighborhood among tonight’s 28,000 SMUD power outages? Patch AM: Is your Sacramento neighborhood among tonight’s 28,000 SMUD power outages? This report summarizes the completion of four renewable energy installations supported by California Energy Commission (CEC) grant number CEC Grant PIR-11-005, the US Department of Energy (DOE) Assistance Agreement, DE-EE0003070, and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) Community Renewable Energy Deployment (CRED) program. The funding from the DOE, combined with funding from the ...

Key Insights

This Final Technical Report is a summary of the activities and outcome of the Department of Energy (DOE) Assistance Agreement DE-EE0005414 with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). The Assistance Agreement was created in 2012 to support investigations into the Iowa Hill Pumped-storage Project (Project), a new development that would add an additional 400 MW of capacity to SMUD’s ... KCRA Channel 3 on MSN: Thousands of SMUD customers across Sacramento lose power amid thunderstorms Thousands of SMUD customers are without power in Sacramento while thunderstorms hit the Valley, according to the utility's website. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), as a typical balancing authority and project team member, was suggested by the Advanced Technology Modeling TFG for testing the models of the advanced pump storage hydro technology newly developed in the course of the DOE project and for demonstration of the potential benefits of this technology.