SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL - Record No: CB 120532

• Record No: CB 120532
• Version: 1
• Council Bill No: CB 120532
• Type: Ordinance (Ord)
• Status: Passed
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: City Clerk
• On agenda: 3/28/2023
• Ordinance No: Ord 126790
• Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department; authorizing the Department to enter and participate in the Western Resource Adequacy Program, including the ability to execute additional agreements necessary or convenient to participate in the Western Resource Adequacy Program; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
• Sponsors: Sara Nelson
• Supporting documents: 1. Summary and Fiscal Note, 2. Central Staff Memo, 3. Presentation, 4. Signed Ordinance 126790, 5. Affidavit of Publication

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
3/30/2023	1	City Clerk	attested by City Clerk
3/30/2023	1	Mayor	returned
3/30/2023	1	Mayor	Signed
3/30/2023	1	City Clerk	submitted for Mayor's signature
3/28/2023	1	City Council	passed	Pass
3/22/2023	1	Economic Development, Technology, and City Light Committee	pass	Pass
3/21/2023	1	City Council	referred
3/2/2023	1	Council President's Office	sent for review
3/1/2023	1	City Clerk	sent for review
3/1/2023	1	Mayor	Mayor's leg transmitted to Council

CITY OF SEATTLE
ORDINANCE __________________
COUNCIL BILL __________________
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the City Light Department; authorizing the Department to enter and participate in the Western Resource Adequacy Program, including the ability to execute additional agreements necessary or convenient to participate in the Western Resource Adequacy Program; and ratifying and confirming certain prior acts.
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WHEREAS, the West faces a looming electric generation resource shortfall as fossil-fuel generation is retired and replaced by large amounts of intermittent renewable resources, such as wind and solar; and
WHEREAS, the potential for a resource shortfall is furthered by load growth in the data center and agricultural sectors and acceleration of electrification in the transportation and building sectors; and
WHEREAS, extreme weather events have increased in frequency and severity, contributing to the uncertainty about whether sufficient generation resources exist to meet the region's needs; and
WHEREAS, the City Light Department has an obligation to ensure its own resource adequacy - the ability to provide sufficient, qualified resources and supporting transmission for all of its anticipated customer and system peak loads - on a forward projection basis in order to enhance and secure electricity reliability in the region; and
WHEREAS, the Western Resource Adequacy Program (WRAP) is a voluntary, proactive, industry-initiated and -led effort developed by a diverse set of participants and managed by Northwest Power Pool and Western Power Pool Corporation to efficiently and collectively meet the growing resource adequacy challenges and enhance electricity reliability in the region; and
WHEREAS, the WRAP will be governed by a tariff approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and will consists of two primary elements: (1) a forward showing program through which participants must demonstrate seven months in advance that they have sufficient qualified...