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This map is clickable; click on any region shown to visit the page for those area codes.Area code 916 is shown in red. Area codes 916 and 279 are California telephone area codes that serve Sacramento, the state capital, and most of its suburbs. Area code 916 was one of the first three original area codes established in California in October 1947.
The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) is a community-owned electric utility serving Sacramento County and parts of Placer County. [3] It is one of the ten largest publicly owned utilities in the United States, generating the bulk of its power through natural gas (estimated 35.2% of production total in 2020) and large hydroelectric generation plants (29.1% in 2020).
The front entrance of the California Energy Commission's Warren–Alquist Energy Building in Sacramento. In 2007, the commission set up relatively strict laws that forbid the signing of new energy supply contracts between utilities and coal-fired power plants. This was a major initiative to stem greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. [7]
The company also moved into home energy storage with its storage system featuring an AC Battery, [25] a modular, 1.2kWh lithium-iron phosphate offering aimed at residential users that is part of a Home Energy Solution. The Home Energy Solution launched in Australia in mid-2016. [26]
In 2005, the company (then called Zilkha Renewable Energy, and owned by Selim Zilkha and Michael Zilkha) was purchased by investment bank Goldman Sachs for an undisclosed sum and renamed Horizon Wind Energy. In 2007, the company was acquired by Energias de Portugal for $2.15 billion [1] and later renamed EDP Renewables North America. [2]
EnergySage is an American Boston-based company that operates an online comparison marketplace for clean energy products such as solar, energy storage, and heat pumps. The company's website provides information about clean energy options and shows online quotes from local solar, heat pump, and battery installers for consumer comparison shopping.
[3] The company's colors of green and yellow were chosen based on then-CEO Paul Farr's love of the Green Bay Packers. [4] Today, the company's logo is simply black and white. On June 10, 2014, PPL announced that it would spin off its competitive energy business which would merge with Riverstone Holdings' operations to create Talen. [5]
The company has demonstrated that its batteries are capable of storing energy to deliver the 100+ hour duration required to make wind power, hydropower, and solar energy reliable year round, and claims less than 1/10th the cost of lithium-ion battery technology. [10] Cells underwent a UL9540A fire test in 2024. [11]