This California Utility Is Now Measuring Building Electrification in “Avoided Carbon”

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By info@greentechmedia.comOct 1, 2020, 11:04 am228 ptsTrending
Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the publicly-owned utility in California's capital city, has changed its energy efficiency metric from avoided electricity consumption to avoided CO2 emissions. SMUD is the first utility in the country to count avoided carbon emissions from the existing building…

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