Panel calls for a Northwest 'operating system' to integrate energy data and track projects

Sep 16, 2026

Speakers recommended a regional data integration effort (project dashboards, anonymized tribal data sharing, tracking deployments) as a practical first step to coordinate multiple actors and help measure progress against planning targets.

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Panelists identified data fragmentation as a major practical barrier to coordinated planning and proposed a regional 'operating system' or dashboard that would let agencies, utilities and tribes track projects and share appropriately anonymized data. Kurt Beckett pointed to recurring recommendations from the Clean Energy Siting Council for a clean energy siting dashboard and said Energy Northwest or similar organizations could act as a starting point for an 'organization of record' to host project tracking.

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