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Senate committee hears competing views on bill to bring ports and single‑customer generators under CETA
Summary
Senators heard proponents say SB 5982 closes a loophole letting large users avoid the Clean Energy Transformation Act, while ports and industry groups warned the bill risks burdening small ports and preexisting customers with new compliance and reporting obligations.
Senator Victoria Hunt, sponsor of Senate Bill 5982, told the Environment, Energy and Technology Committee the bill would close a gap in Washington’s Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA) so that port districts and other large electricity generators are covered by the state’s decarbonization timelines.
"This is a bill that ensures that all of our state's electricity is subject to CETA," Hunt said, arguing the change is needed as data centers and other large users put growing pressure on the grid.
The bill, staff explained, would amend CETA definitions to include port districts as consumer‑owned utilities, expand the market‑customer definition to capture entities that generate any of their electricity, and direct the Utilities and Transportation…
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