Pacific Power submits first Clean Energy Implementation Plan for public comment
Progressing a plan for clean energy in Washington, Pacific Power last week filed its first Clean Energy Implementation Plan with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, making it available for public comment.
As a result, customers and communities can provide feedback on the draft both by email and through a virtual public participation meeting on Nov. 10, 2021. Once feedback has been gathered, the company will incorporate it into a final 2022 CEIP plan to be filed on Jan. 1, 2022.
“For several years, we have been on a path that advances clean energy and the necessary infrastructure to deliver it, powering jobs and innovation,” Shay LaBray, vice president of resource planning and acquisitions for Pacific Power, said. “This is furthered in our 2021 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), which advances the company’s ongoing commitment to clean energy with new renewable and non-emitting energy, transmission, energy efficiency, demand response, and storage technology.”
Important points of the plan include increasing renewable resources to 50 percent by 2025 and all the way up to 100 percent by 2045. Pacific Power proposed energy efficiency targets, incentives, and customer programs to reduce customer usage and focus on highly impacted or vulnerable communities. Demand response programs and tracking the benefits of the energy transition through customer benefit indicators could also be major components of the new plan, coupled with increased community outreach and engagement at large.
The final CEIP will maintain that by Dec. 31, 2025, all coal-fired generation must be shown to have been removed from Washington utilities’ allocation of electricity. By 2030, these utilities must also be greenhouse gas neutral. By 2045, all of the state’s electricity supply must come from renewable and non-emitting resources.
