CITY OF SEATTLE
RESOLUTION __________________
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A RESOLUTION relating to the City Light Department; acknowledging and approving the City Light Department’s adoption of a biennial energy conservation target for 2022-2023 and ten-year conservation potential.
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WHEREAS, Ballot Initiative 937 (I-937), also known as the Energy Independence Act, was passed by Washington state voters on November 7, 2006, which requires qualifying electric utilities to obtain new renewable resources and undertake cost-effective energy conservation; and
WHEREAS, I-937 was codified in chapter 19.285 RCW; and
WHEREAS, RCW 19.285.040 calls for each qualifying utility to pursue all available conservation that is cost-effective, reliable, and feasible, including requiring of the development of conservation potential and biennial conservation targets; and
WHEREAS, WAC 194-37-070 requires that each qualifying utility must document the methodologies and inputs used in the development of its ten-year potential and biennial target are consistent with the requirements of RCW 19.285.040; and
WHEREAS, City Light undertook a Conservation Potential Assessment study to develop its ten-year potential and biennial target, which was consistent with the methodologies set forth in RCW 19.285.040 and WAC 194-37-070; and
WHEREAS, the Conservation Potential Assessment identifies a ten-year conservation potential of 76.9 annual megawatts (aMW) starting in 2022, and a biennial energy conservation target of 18.7 aMW for City Light in 2022-2023; and
WHEREAS, City Light anticipates meeting or exceeding the energy conservation target for 2022 and 2023, and updating its Conservation Potential Assessment by the year 2023; and
WHEREAS, WAC 194-37-070 requires that each utility must establish its ten-year potential and biennial target by action of the utility’s governing board, after public notice and opportunity for comment; NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE, THE MAYOR CONCURRING, THAT:
Section 1. Pursuant to RCW 19.285 et. seq. and corresponding WAC 194-37-070 regulations, and after public hearing, the City Council acknowledges and approves the City Light Department’s (City Light) adoption of a biennial energy conservation target of 18.7 aMW for 2022-2023 and a ten-year conservation potential of 76.9 aMW starting in 2022. City Light’s biennial energy conservation target and ten-year conservation potential are based upon a Conservation Potential Assessment conducted using methodologies consistent with those used by the Pacific Northwest Electric Power and Conservation Planning Council in order for City Light to pursue all available conservation that is cost-effective, reliable, and feasible.
Section 2. The City Council further acknowledges that City Light anticipates meeting or exceeding the biennial energy conservation target with its adopted 2022 budget.
Adopted by the City Council the ________ day of _________________________, 2021, and signed by me in open session in authentication of its adoption this ________ day of _________________________, 2021.
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President ____________ of the City Council
The Mayor concurred the ________ day of _________________________, 2021.
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Jenny A. Durkan, Mayor
Filed by me this ________ day of _________________________, 2021.
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Monica Martinez Simmons, City Clerk
(Seal)