The Clean Energy Implementation Plan (CEIP) is a four-year roadmap that will guide PSE’s clean energy investments for the years 2022-2025. Thanks to everyone who helped us include our customer and community values in our plan to build a more equitable and sustainable clean energy future for our region.
VIEW THE 2023 BIENNIAL CEIP UPDATE
Equity in energy
We're working to ensure all customers benefit from the transition to clean electricity, which requires a dedicated effort to consider the benefits and burdens to highly impacted and vulnerable populations.
In this work, we embrace the principles of energy equity by addressing accessibility, affordability and accountability.
Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) to host open meeting to review PSE’s 2023 Biennial Update on March 22
The UTC is hosting an open meeting at 9:00 a.m. Friday, March 22, 2024, to review PSE’s 2023 Biennial Clean Energy Implementation Plan Update (Biennial Update). During the meeting, PSE will present the Biennial Update to the Commission and respond to questions. For additional information, please view the meeting notice and the Commission website.
If you have questions about the meeting, please contact:
Joel Nightingale
(360) 664-1154
When inquiring about the subject of this Notice, please refer to Docket UE-210795.
The next Equity Advisory Group meeting will take place on
View available EAG meeting materials and more upcoming meeting dates.
The Clean Electricity Transition - Part 1
The Clean Electricity Transition - Part 2
The Clean Energy Implementation Plan (CEIP) is an important piece of our long-term energy planning efforts to eliminate carbon emissions from our region’s electricity supply and meet the goals of Washington’s Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA), a new law that enables PSE to move further and faster on delivering clean electricity.
The CEIP is a key part of
PSE's Beyond Net Zero
carbon commitment and aspirational goals.
The electricity PSE supplies is generated from a mix of resources. Today, over 40% of PSE’s electric energy supply comes from clean sources like wind and hydroelectric facilities that don’t emit greenhouse gas emissions. Our shared goal is to reach 100% clean electricity by 2045.
Coal-free electricity
60% of electric supply sourced from renewable or non-emitting resources
Carbon-neutral electric system
100% clean electricity
To help plan for the transition, PSE is including clean energy milestones in its 20+ year
Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) and the
10-year Clean Energy Action Plan (CEAP). The 4-year CEIP maps out timely and equitable progress toward these milestones based on community input and the needs and strategies identified in long-range planning documents.
Visit the IRP Website to view the 20+ year resource plan identifying PSE customer future energy needs.
Visit the IRP website to view the 10-year strategy to meet customer needs and transform electric energy supply, filed jointly with IRP.
4-year roadmap on specific targets and actions to meet customer needs and transform electric energy supply.
In 2019, Governor Inslee signed into law the Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA), committing Washington to provide electricity free of greenhouse gas emissions by 2045. CETA includes three key milestones:
CETA includes provisions for affordability and reliability and ensuring all customer benefit from the clean energy transformation.
The Clean Energy Implementation Plan must include:
PSE partnered with the Equity Advisory Group, our current advisory groups and customers to shape the CEIP.
PSE plans out the electric system years in advance to ensure we can always serve our customers’ growing energy needs. The Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) identifies how PSE provides cost-effective electricity and natural gas to reliably meet our customers’ needs over the next 20+ years, and the Clean Energy Action Plan identifies the lowest reasonable cost strategy for the next 10 years.
The 2021 IRP outlines PSE’s plans to eliminate coal from its electric portfolio of resources, achieving carbon neutrality by 2030, and transition to carbon free electric supply by 2045.
Our customers are deeply concerned about climate change and want clean energy, and we share those interests. We’ve been an early leader on clean energy, investing in renewable resources and energy efficiency for homes and businesses in our region.
We have partnered with our customers to develop several renewable energy programs to help us make a difference together, like our Green Power, Solar Choice and Carbon Balance programs.
Our customers want opportunities to save money and the environment at the same time. PSE’s rebate program creates incentives to improve energy efficiency and reduce energy costs.
We moved swiftly to engage our communities and submit our first Clean Energy Implementation Plan (CEIP) to meet the goals of Washington’s Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA).
We partnered with our customers and advisory groups to develop the CEIP roadmap. PSE is emphasizing engagement with highly impacted communities and vulnerable populations to create an equitable clean energy transition. We continue to engage with our customers, community members and regulators to accomplish our shared goals under CETA.
Customers that reside in PSE’s electricity service area, with a focus on highly impacted communities and vulnerable populations.
A community stakeholder group that advises PSE on equitable delivery of benefits and burden reduction related to the clean electric energy transformation.
In addition to the EAG, PSE’s other advisory groups include:
PSE consults these advisory groups on CEIP topics related to their focus areas.
PSE prepared the CEIP in alignment with our equity and clean energy goals and the Clean Energy Transformation Act.
The UTC is the regulatory body charged with enforcing the rules of Washington's CETA.
As we work to create a new clean energy future and the urgent need to address climate change, we must do so in a way that ensures all of our customers, especially those who shoulder an outsized share of the climate burden, have a voice in and benefit from the transition to clean energy.
In 2021, PSE convened an inaugural Equity Advisory Group (EAG) to help seek perspectives from and broaden engagement with communities we serve, including frontline communities of low-income people and Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). The members of the EAG share perspectives from their lived or working experiences related to environmental justice, Tribal interests, highly impacted communities, vulnerable populations, social services and affordable housing.
In 2022 and 2023, we welcomed new members to the EAG as some member terms ended. Together, our new and returning members are helping to deepen and expand our perspectives in the clean electricity transition.
Current EAG Members
While we are not actively looking for new EAG members at this time, we encourage you to submit a preliminary application that we may refer to as openings occur. Submit your application online or contact us for assistance via email at Ray.Outlaw@pse.com or call 360-481-9483.
The EAG invites community members to submit comments and questions on meeting topics. Comments will be included in the next EAG meeting materials packet.
Visit the Get Involved section to submit general comments and questions to the project team.
EAG Meeting Schedule and Materials
Similar to past years, the Equity Advisory Group is expected to meet nine times in 2024. However, based on availability of members, the EAG will meet on Tuesdays in instead of Mondays. Meetings will continue to occur from 5 to 7 p.m. EAG meetings can be observed via livestream from the EAG YouTube channel. Meeting materials will be posted to this website in advance of each meeting.