Overview on PSE’s Clean Energy Implementation Plan

On Dec. 17, 2021, PSE submitted its plan for moving to more than 60 percent clean electricity by the end of 2025 and meeting its aspirational goal of being a Beyond Net Zero Carbon company by 2045. Having filed an initial draft plan with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) in October 2021, PSE’s final Clean Energy Implementation plan (CEIP), further defines a course of action for clean electricity programs and investments for the next four years, aligning with policies established by Washington’s Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA).

The CEIP outlines PSE’s path to creating a better energy future for its customers and neighbors across the region. Strategies for the next four years include:

• Moving PSE forward to 63 percent clean electricity by the end of 2025 – up from 59 percent in the draft plan and 34 percent in 2020, accelerating efforts toward meeting our clean energy goals for 2030 and 2045.
   
• Removing coal as a source of electricity from our grid by the end of 2025.
  
  
• Ramping up utility-scale clean, renewable electricity resources like large-scale wind and solar generation.
  
  
• Collaborating with customers to nearly double installation of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) such as solar and battery storage programs.
  
  
• Creating more ways for customers to save energy and reduce costs through energy efficiency improvements.
  
  
• Introducing new programs and incentives to reduce or shift energy use during peak times.
  
  
• Ensuring clean energy transition benefits are distributed equitably, toward achieving a more inclusive, carbon-free future. 

The plan includes a robust public participation process in energy planning that strengthens community ties and creates solutions that reflect those goals. Since April 2021, we have engaged PSE customers, community-based organizations and advisory groups including our new Equity Advisory Group, to inform the CEIP.

This plan is the first of many, and PSE is committed to continuing to engage with customers, community-based organizations, advisory groups, tribal governments and others as we work together to combat climate change.

The UTC is in the process of reviewing PSE’s CEIP. The UTC hosted a public comment period between Dec. 28, 2021, and Mar. 2, 2022, as part of Docket UE-210795. The UTC will decide whether to approve, modify or reject the plan. If you have questions or would like to be notified of future open meetings at which PSE’s CEIP will be considered by the UTC, visit the UTC’s website.

Note: On Feb. 1, 2022, PSE refiled the Clean Energy Implementation plan with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (UTC) as part of docket UE-210795. The refiled CEIP provides technical corrections, which do not alter the targets, specific actions, or incremental costs in the CEIP period nor any other substantive portions of the CEIP. The corrections included in the refiling are listed in Attachment A: List of Primary Technical Changes to PSE’s 2021 CEIP.

If you have questions about the CEIP or would like additional information, please contact us at ceip@pse.com, call (425) 818-2051, or write PSE Clean Energy Strategy Team, Mailstop BEL10W, P.O. Box 97034, Bellevue, WA 98009-9734.

The CEIP Executive Summary is  available in multiple languages:

• Read the CEIP Executive Summary (English)
• Lea el resumen ejecutivo del CEIP (Spanish)
• Прочтите исполнительное резюме CEIP (Russian)
• Đọc tóm tắt điều hành CEIP (Vietnamese)
• 閱讀 CEIP 執行摘要 (Chinese)
• सीईआईपी कार्यकारी सारांश पढ़ें (Hindi)