Portland General Electric files Integrated Resource and Clean Energy plans
Portland General Electric (PGE) filed its combined Integrated Resource Plan and inaugural Clean Energy Plan with Oregon regulators this week.
The plans provide a roadmap for how the company will meet customers’ energy needs as well as the state’s ambitious greenhouse gas emissions targets while maintaining reliability, safety, and affordability.
“This plan reflects the values and expectations of our customers who, for decades, have made clean energy a top priority,” Maria Pope, Portland General Electric’s president and CEO, said. “Achieving decarbonization will require continued collaboration with our customers and community partners at the local, state, and federal levels. At PGE, we are committed to making the investments in innovation, diverse resources, and the electric grid necessary to decarbonize our energy system while we continue to focus on affordability during the clean energy transition.”
Specifically, Portland General’s strategy to reach those goals involves several initiatives, including new utility-scale renewable projects like wind and solar installations, both in-state and out-of-state, and the necessary transmission to bring it to local customers. The plans also feature plans to develop more non-emitting capacity, such as batteries and community-based renewable energy, including energy efficiency, solar, battery storage, and demand response programs.
In addition, the company intends to collaborate in regional markets and form partnerships that allow PGE and other utilities to pool resources and source clean energy from across the West. Also, the plans call for upgrades to local transmission lines and new regional transmission solutions to accommodate growth and bring a greater geographic diversity of resources to PGE’s portfolio.
PGE has already taken significant steps to decarbonize its system, citing a 25 percent decrease from baseline to actual emissions in 2022.
