energy

SB 1034 Local control for Energy facility

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Comm | 0 Comments

Removes a way in which EFSC may find that a proposed facility complies with statewide planning goals. Removes provisions that allow the Energy Facility Siting Council to find that an energy facility is in compliance with statewide planning goals even when the council determines that the facility does not comply with applicable substantive criteria from the affected local government’s land…

SB 1178 10% required from small-scale renewable energy facilities

Posted on April 2, 2025 by Donna | 0 Comments

Requires 10 percent of the power sold in this state by a power company to be made by certain power plants. Requires 10 percent of the electricity sold in this state by each electric company that makes sales to 25,000 or more retail electricity consumers to be generated by small-scale renewable energy facilities or certain biomass facilities. Takes effect on…

SB 1160 Cost-benefit analysis of renewable energy projects

Posted on March 27, 2025 by Donna | 0 Comments

Tells ODOE to study the costs and benefits of renewable energy projects in this state. Directs ODOE to give a report on its findings. Requires the State Department of Energy to carry out a cost-benefit analysis on deploying renewable energy projects in this state. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to…

HB 3119 Delays implementing transitioning diesel to electric

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Donna | 3 Comments

This Act tells DEQ to wait to enforce some California rules on truck exhaust. Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from implementing or enforcing the Advanced Clean Trucks regulations before January 1, 2027. Declares an emergency, effective on passage. Oregon’s diesel ban went into effect January 1, but with President Trump’s executive order promising to rescind EV mandates, the future…

SB 634 Classify Hydro as Renewable

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Comm | 1 Comments

A hydroelectric facility or any other equipment that generates electricity through the hydroelectric energy may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard. The objection is that hydropower as a renewable would diminish the need for other renewable sources – wind and solar, and save energy costs. Environmentalist object for unsupported reasons since they don’t apply the same standard…

SB 828 Creates the Grid Resilience Matching Fund.

Posted on February 2, 2025 by Donna | 0 Comments

Establishes the Grid Resilience Matching Fund. Appropriates moneys in the fund to the State Department of Energy to provide state matching funds for federal grant funding for grid resilience projects. All moneys in the fund are continuously appropriated to the State Department of Energy for the purposes of providing state matching funds to leverage federal grant funding for grid resilience…

SB 1567 Walla Walla Water 2050 Strategic Plan

Posted on February 5, 2024 by BJ

Vote: NO
Signed into law by Gov Kotek, 2024