Bill would clarify how Bonneville purchases count under Washington’s Clean Energy Transformation Act

Mar 18, 2025

House Bill 1329 would narrow and clarify treatment of unspecified wholesale power purchases under the Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA), allowing limited-duration unspecified contracts for reliability and explicitly excepting long-term BPA purchases from the law’s no-coal standard except where BPA knows power is coal-generated.

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Committee staff and sponsors briefed members on engrossed House Bill 13 29, a technical bill intended to clarify how certain wholesale power purchases are treated under the Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA).

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