By Tom Philp | January 6, 2026 | The Sacramento Bee
This feels like a complete breakdown in due diligence and transparency by SMUD. It was the utility’s job to vet this project with the public, not DESRI. This is a public power utility that is supposed to do the public’s business in public. Somewhere down the line, DESRI became SMUD’s client, not ratepayers, not the community at large, while board members who are supposed to be in charge sat on their hands.
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