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Bill would clarify how Bonneville purchases count under Washington’s Clean Energy Transformation Act
Summary
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.
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).
Kim Cushing, committee staff, explained that CETA requires Washington utilities to eliminate coal-fired resources from their electricity allocation by Dec. 31, 2025, make retail sales greenhouse-gas neutral in subsequent milestones, and reach 100% nonemitting and renewable retail load by Jan. 1, 2045. Under current CETA guidance, a limited-duration wholesale power purchase of unspecified electricity (where the source is not known at procurement) is exempt…
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