Melissa Ankeny

This Clean Energy Implementation Plan serves as a four-year roadmap (2022-2025) outlining Clark Public Utilities' actions, programs, and investments to meet the Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA) goals for carbon neutrality by 2030 and 100 percent clean energy by 2045. Key strategies include optimizing existing resources through upgrades to the River Road Generating Plant, securing additional renewable and non-emitting resources, pursuing cost-effective energy efficiency, and exploring demand response measures. The plan emphasizes equitable benefits, public health, environmental improvements, and energy security, with specific programs targeting vulnerable populations and highly impacted communities through bill assistance, weatherization, and electric vehicle incentives.

This Clean Energy Implementation Plan (CEIP) serves as a four-year roadmap for Clark Public Utilities, guiding its clean energy actions, programs, and investments from 2026 to 2029. The plan details specific actions to meet Washington's Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA) mandates, targeting carbon neutrality by 2030 and 100% clean energy by 2045. Key focus areas include increasing renewable and non-emitting resources, enhancing energy efficiency, and developing demand response programs. A core objective is ensuring the equitable distribution of energy and non-energy benefits, reducing burdens on vulnerable populations and highly impacted communities, and fostering long-term public health, environmental benefits, energy security, and resiliency.

This Clean Energy Implementation Plan outlines strategies for Clark Public Utilities to comply with the Clean Energy Transformation Act. Key priorities include achieving interim targets for renewable and non-emitting resources, with specific goals for energy efficiency, demand response, and renewable energy acquisition by 2025. The plan details actions such as upgrading the River Road Generating Plant, securing additional carbon-free resources, and developing demand response and energy efficiency programs. It also emphasizes ensuring an equitable transition by identifying and addressing the needs of highly impacted communities and vulnerable populations through targeted programs and financial support, informed by public participation.

This document outlines the Clean Energy Implementation Plan (CEIP), a four-year roadmap designed to guide Clark Public Utilities' actions, programs, and investments towards achieving carbon reduction standards. The plan aims to track progress towards meeting clean energy goals, ensuring equitable distribution of benefits, reducing burdens on vulnerable communities, and enhancing public health, environmental benefits, energy security, and resiliency. It aligns with the Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA) to provide electricity free of greenhouse gas emissions by 2045.

The 2025 Conservation Potential Assessment for Clark Public Utilities outlines the cost-effective energy savings potential for the period of 2026 to 2045, serving as a roadmap for future energy efficiency programs. Key areas of focus include residential, commercial, industrial, and utility distribution system sectors. The assessment aims to align with Washington's Energy Independence Act and Clean Energy Transformation Act requirements, with a vision to reduce the utility's annual energy consumption by 15% and peak demand by 12% by 2045 through achievable and economic conservation efforts.