Local Energy Rules

The publicly-owned Sacramento Municipal Utility District, or SMUD, had already installed the first utility-scale PV array in the nation back in 1984. By the early 1990s, the utility saw a potential for rooftop solar and launched its PV Pioneer program, placing dozens of solar arrays on their customer’s rooftops, for a fee. https://ilsr.org/articles/two-decades-of-solar-pioneers-in-sacramento-episode-27-of-local-energy-rules/