SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL - Record No: Res 31631

• Record No: Res 31631
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution (Res)
• Status: Adopted
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: City Clerk
• On agenda: 1/11/2016
• Title: A RESOLUTION relating to the City Light Department; acknowledging and approving City Light's adoption of a biennial energy conservation target for 2016-2017 and a ten-year conservation potential.
• Sponsors: Kshama Sawant
• Supporting documents: 1. Summary and Fiscal Note, 2. Conservation Targets Presentation

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/14/2016	1	City Clerk	attested by City Clerk
1/14/2016	1	Mayor	Signed
1/14/2016	1	Mayor	returned
1/12/2016	1	City Clerk	submitted for Mayor's signature
1/11/2016	1	City Council	adopted	Pass
12/11/2015	1	Energy Committee	adopt	Pass
11/9/2015	1	City Council	referred
10/20/2015	1	Council President's Office	sent for review
10/13/2015	1	City Clerk	sent for review
10/13/2015	1	Mayor	Mayor's leg transmitted to Council

CITY OF SEATTLE
RESOLUTION _________________

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A RESOLUTION relating to the City Light Department; acknowledging and approving City Light's adoption of a biennial energy conservation target for 2016-2017 and a 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 and requires qualifying electric utilities to obtain new renewable resources and undertake cost-effective energy conservation; and
WHEREAS, I-937 was codified in Title 19 of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW), Chapter 285 and in Title 194 of the Washington Administrative Code (WAC), Chapter 37; 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, the City Light Department (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 128.1 aMW starting in 2016, and a biennial energy conservation target of 25.62 aMW for City Light in 2016-2017; and
WHEREAS, City Light anticipates meeting or exceeding the energy conservation target for 2016 and 2017 and updating its Conservation Potential Assessment by the year 2017; 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...