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Washington state charts path for 2025 coal-free electricity, 2030 carbon-neutral electricity
After 18 months of workshops, hearings and document revisions, the Washington State Department of Commerce and the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission adopted rules to require investor-owned and publicly owned electric utilities to supply power to their customers from sources that do not emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.
The new rules are designed to implement the state’s Clean Energy Transformation Act, or CETA, which Gov. Jay Inslee signed May 7, 2019, to require utilities to supply carbon-neutral electricity by 2030 and to eliminate carbon-emitting electric generation entirely by 2045. The CETA also requires electric utilities to eliminate coal-fired electricity from their resource mix by the end of 2025.
The strategy also calls for Washington to establish a clean fuel standard and adopt a policy of universal access to broadband Internet service. A clean fuel
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6 Jan, 2021 Author Tom DiChristopher
Legislation developed by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee s office could substantially reduce and potentially eliminate natural gas utilities role in delivering energy to many state ratepayers over the next 30 years.
Washington House Bill 1084, the Healthy Homes and Clean Buildings Act, would require all new buildings in Washington to be zero-carbon by 2030 and seek to eliminate fossil fuel consumption in existing buildings by 2050, according to a Dec. 15, 2020, policy brief from Inslee s office. The legislative text would provide a roadmap to phasing out gas utility service in Washington through changes to state code, regulatory mechanisms and incentives.