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Q So customers are extremely important for accelerating decarbonization. Paul, how does that resonate with you when you think about your targets to zero out greenhouse gas emissions?
A It absolutely aligns with it. I think, you know, the barrel group is absolutely right. So just to give you some context, right? So the Smuts power plants emits about two million metric tons of carbon a year, but the building and transportation sector emits eight million metric tons of carbon. So it's exactly what Matt actually talked about, what Matthew actually just talked about. Customer has to be central to that solution. So when you look at our Smuts plan, right, besides decarbonizing, our completely removing carbon from our power supply, The two millimetric tons. We're also investing two billion dollars, you know, in the building and transportation sectors along with energy efficiencies and the low flexibility because that's really where a lot of the, you know, that, that's a much bigger impact. So our plan actually calls for one million metric tons of reduction from that eight million metric tons of carbon. And we're just investing about two billion dollars on it because we really believe customer absolutely have to play in that solution because just give you some context, right? Um, Besides putting rooftop solar and batteries, which you're investing in, the electric vehicle is a very good example. California is mandated to basically put in about 5,000,005 million electric vehicles by 2030. And SMUD's contribution of that is about 300,000 vehicles. Each one of those vehic…
AI assessment note: “It absolutely aligns with it... Customer has to be central to that solution.”
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Q Paul, what does that mean for SMUDs territory? How are you thinking about the different types of customers and what their motivations are?
A So we actually go through what we might call, you know, customer segmentation. So we really try to understand the different class of customer that we have from residential all the way to the big commercial customers to really say, what are they looking for for electric utility? You know, what is the value that they have, you know, in terms of how the value, the power is delivered? And do we have programs? Do we have choices for them to actually act, you know, in a way that, you know, that really kind of fits the lifestyle. So for example, you have some early adopters, you know, on the residential side, That is really interesting environment. So, you know, they have a little more resources, so they really want to start thinking about, you know, putting solar on the roof, you know, putting batteries and buying electric vehicles and doing quite a bit of energy efficiency stuff. But then you also have people on the other end that, you know, families that are, uh, very, very busy, you know, in terms of their life, but they really want, you know, simple ways to actually help them lower the bill. So I think what, what happens of what we look at, you know, from the customer perspective, we try to, Look at the different customer segments that we have. What values do they have? You know, that, that, what value does utility bring to them? And then what program that we can actually accommo…
AI assessment note: “we actually go through what we might call, you know, customer segmentation.”
