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 2024-2025 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 of the Revised Code of Washington (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 the development of conservation potential and biennial conservation targets; and
WHEREAS, Washington Administrative Code ("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 and must document that its ten-year potential and biennial target are consistent with the requirements of RCW 19.285.040(1)"; 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 79 average megawatts (aMW) starting in 2024, and a biennial energy conservation target of 18 aMW for City Light in 2024-2025; and
WHEREAS, City Light anticipates meeting or exceeding the energy conservation target for 2024 and 2025, and updating its Conservation Potential Assessment by the year 2025; 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...
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