Chapter 469A — Chapter 469A

ORS 469A.005 Definitions for ORS 469A.005 to 469A.210. As used in ORS 469A.005 to 469A.210

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ORS 469A.010 Qualifying electricity. (1) Except as provided in this section, and subject to ORS 469A.135, electricity generated from a renewable energy source may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard only if the facility that generates the electricity meets the requirements of ORS 469A.020

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ORS 469A.020 Qualifying electricity; age of generating facility. (1) Except as provided in this section, electricity may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard only if the electricity is generated by a facility that becomes operational on or after January 1, 1995

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ORS 469A.025 Renewable energy sources; rules. (1) Electricity generated utilizing the following types of energy may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard

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ORS 469A.027 Certification of eligibility for certain generating facilities; generation date of electricity. The State Department of Energy may certify as eligible for renewable energy certificates a facility that qualifies under ORS 469A.020 (5) and (6) and 469A.025 (6) and (7) only for electricity generated on or after January 1, 2011. [2010 c.17 §4]

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ORS 469A.029 Eligibility; registration date for certain generating facilities with tracking system. To be eligible for renewable energy certificates, the owner or operator of a generating facility that qualifies under ORS 469A.020 (5) and (6) and 469A.025 (6) and (7) must register the generating facility with the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System or other regional system or trading program designated by the State Department of Energy before January 1, 2011. [2010 c.17 §5]

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ORS 469A.031 Eligibility; registration date of generating facility that uses biomass with Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System. Notwithstanding ORS 469A.029, a facility described in ORS 469A.020 (5) is eligible for renewable energy certificates if the owner or operator of the generating facility registered the generating facility with the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System on or after January 1, 2011. [2017 c.249 §1]

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ORS 469A.050 Applicable standard. (1) Electric utilities must comply with the applicable renewable portfolio standard described in ORS 469A.052 or 469A.055

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ORS 469A.052 Large utility renewable portfolio standard. (1) The large utility renewable portfolio standard imposes the following requirements on an electric utility that makes sales of electricity to retail electricity consumers in an amount that equals three percent or more of all electricity sold to retail electricity consumers

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ORS 469A.055 Small electric utilities. (1) Except as provided in this section, an electric utility that makes sales of electricity to retail electricity consumers in an amount that equals less than three percent of all electricity sold to retail electricity consumers is not subject to ORS 469A.005 to 469A.210

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ORS 469A.060 Exemptions from compliance with renewable portfolio standard. (1) Electric utilities are not required to comply with the renewable portfolio standards described in ORS 469A.052 and 469A.055 to the extent that

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ORS 469A.062 [2016 c.28 §13; repealed by 2021 c.508 §16]

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ORS 469A.065 Renewable portfolio standard for electricity service suppliers. An electricity service supplier must meet the requirements of the renewable portfolio standards that are applicable to the electric utilities that serve the territories in which the electricity service supplier sells electricity to retail electricity consumers. The Public Utility Commission shall establish procedures for implementation of the renewable portfolio standards for electricity service suppliers that sell electricity in the service territory of an electric company. If an electricity service supplier sells electricity in territories served by more than one electric company, the commission may provide for an aggregate standard based on the amount of electricity sold by the electricity service supplier in each territory. Pursuant to ORS 757.676, a consumer-owned utility may establish procedures for the implementation of the renewable portfolio standards for electricity service suppliers that sell electricity in the territory served by the consumer-owned utility. [2007 c.301 §9]

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ORS 469A.070 Manner of complying with renewable portfolio standards. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, an electric utility or electricity service supplier must comply with the renewable portfolio standard applicable to the utility or supplier in each calendar year by

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ORS 469A.075 Electric company plan for meeting requirements; commission review; rules. (1) An electric company that is subject to a renewable portfolio standard shall describe the electric company’s plan for meeting the requirements of the renewable portfolio standard as part of the electric company’s integrated resource plan filed with the Public Utility Commission

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ORS 469A.100 Limits on cost of compliance with renewable portfolio standard. (1) Electric utilities are not required to comply with a renewable portfolio standard during a compliance year to the extent that the incremental cost of compliance, the cost of unbundled renewable energy certificates and the cost of alternative compliance payments under ORS 469A.180 exceeds four percent of the electric utility’s annual revenue requirement for the compliance year

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ORS 469A.120 Cost recovery by electric companies. (1) Except as provided in ORS 469A.180 (5), all prudently incurred costs associated with complying with ORS 469A.005 to 469A.210 are recoverable in the rates of an electric company, including interconnection costs, costs associated with using physical or financial assets to integrate, firm or shape renewable energy sources on a firm annual basis to meet retail electricity needs, above-market costs and other costs associated with transmission and delivery of qualifying electricity to retail electricity consumers

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ORS 469A.130 Renewable energy certificates system. (1) The State Department of Energy shall establish a system of renewable energy certificates that can be used by an electric utility or electricity service supplier to establish compliance with the applicable renewable portfolio standard. The department shall consult with the Public Utility Commission before establishing a system of renewable energy certificates under this section. The department may allow use of renewable energy certificates that are issued, monitored, accounted for or transferred by or through a regional system or trading program, including but not limited to the Western Renewable Energy Generation Information System. The system established by the department shall allow issuance, transfer and use of renewable energy certificates in electronic form

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ORS 469A.132 Thermal renewable energy certificates. (1) If a facility that generates electricity using biomass also generates thermal energy for a secondary purpose, the State Department of Energy shall provide that renewable energy certificates must be issued for the generation of the thermal energy. Notwithstanding the definition of “qualifying electricity” in ORS 469A.005 or any other provision of law stating or implying that a renewable portfolio standard may be complied with only through the generation of electricity, renewable energy certificates for thermal energy

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ORS 469A.135 Renewable energy certificates that may be used to comply with standards. (1) A bundled renewable energy certificate may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard if

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ORS 469A.140 Use, transfer and banking of certificates. (1) Renewable energy certificates may be traded, sold or otherwise transferred

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ORS 469A.145 Limitations on use of unbundled certificates to meet renewable portfolio standard. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, unbundled renewable energy certificates, including banked unbundled renewable energy certificates, may not be used to meet more than 20 percent of the requirements of the large utility renewable portfolio standard described in ORS 469A.052 for any compliance year

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ORS 469A.147 Exemption from limitation on use of unbundled certificates for consumer-owned utilities. Unless the exemption provided by ORS 469A.055 (1) terminated for the consumer-owned utility pursuant to ORS 469A.055 (5), a consumer-owned utility described in ORS 469A.052 (2) that is subject to the large utility renewable portfolio standard described in ORS 469A.052 (3) may use, notwithstanding ORS 469A.145 (1), unbundled renewable energy certificates, including banked unbundled renewable energy certificates, to meet

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ORS 469A.150 Multistate electric companies; rules. The Public Utility Commission by rule shall establish a process for allocating the use of renewable energy certificates by an electric company that makes sales of electricity to retail customers in more than one state. [2007 c.301 §18]

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ORS 469A.170 Compliance reports; rules. (1) Each electric utility and electricity service supplier that is subject to a renewable portfolio standard shall make an annual compliance report for the purpose of detailing compliance, or failure to comply, with the renewable portfolio standard applicable in the compliance year. An electric company or electricity service supplier shall make the report to the Public Utility Commission. A consumer-owned utility shall make the report to the members or customers of the utility

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ORS 469A.180 Electric companies; electricity service suppliers. (1) The Public Utility Commission shall establish an alternative compliance rate for each compliance year for each electric company or electricity service supplier that is subject to a renewable portfolio standard. The rate shall be expressed in dollars per megawatt-hour

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ORS 469A.185 Consumer-owned utilities. The governing body of a consumer-owned utility shall establish an alternative compliance rate for the utility. To the extent possible, the alternative compliance rate shall be determined by the governing body of the consumer-owned utility in a manner similar to that used by the Public Utility Commission in establishing alternative compliance rates under ORS 469A.180. Amounts collected as alternative compliance payments by a consumer-owned utility may be used for the purposes specified in ORS 469A.180 (5) and for the purpose of paying expenses associated with research, development and demonstration projects related to the generation of qualifying electricity by the utility. [2007 c.301 §21]

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ORS 469A.200 Penalty. If an electric company or electricity service supplier that is subject to a renewable portfolio standard under ORS 469A.005 to 469A.210 fails to comply with the standard in the manner provided by ORS 469A.005 to 469A.210, the Public Utility Commission may impose a penalty against the company or supplier in an amount determined by the commission. A penalty under this section is in addition to any alternative compliance payment required or elected under ORS 469A.180. Moneys paid for penalties under this section shall be transmitted by the commission to the nongovernmental entity receiving moneys under ORS 757.612 (3)(d) and may be used only for the purposes specified in ORS 757.612 (1). [2007 c.301 §22]

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ORS 469A.205 Green power rate. (1) Electric utilities shall allow retail electricity consumers to elect a green power rate. A significant portion of the electricity purchased or generated by a utility that is attributable to moneys paid by retail electricity consumers who elect the green power rate must be qualifying electricity, and the utility must inform consumers of the sources of the electricity purchased or generated by the utility that is attributable to moneys paid by consumers who elect the green power rate. The green power rate shall reasonably reflect the costs of the electricity purchased or generated by the utility that is attributable to moneys paid by retail electricity consumers who elect the green power rate. All prudently incurred costs associated with the green power rate are recoverable in a green power rate offered by an electric company

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ORS 469A.210 Goal for community-based renewable energy projects. (1) The Legislative Assembly finds that community-based renewable energy projects, including but not limited to marine renewable energy resources that are either developed in accordance with the Territorial Sea Plan adopted pursuant to ORS 196.471 or located on structures adjacent to the coastal shorelands, are an essential element of this state’s energy future

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ORS 469A.300 Hydrogen power stations; compliance with renewable portfolio standard; cost recovery for prudent energy investments. To facilitate the creation of hydrogen power stations using anhydrous ammonia as a fuel source to comply with a renewable portfolio standard under ORS 469A.005 to 469A.210, the Public Utility Commission may allow full recovery of costs by public utilities in prudent energy investments related to the planning, financing, construction and operation of hydrogen power stations. These investments may include, but need not be limited to

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ORS 469A.400 Definitions for ORS 469A.400 to 469A.475. As used in ORS 469A.400 to 469A.475

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ORS 469A.405 Policy. It is the policy of the State of Oregon

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ORS 469A.410 Clean energy targets; reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. (1) A retail electricity provider shall reduce greenhouse gas emissions, measured for an electric company as greenhouse gas emissions reported under ORS 468A.280, and measured for an electricity service supplier as greenhouse gas emissions per megawatt-hour as reported under ORS 468A.280, to the extent compliance is consistent with ORS 469A.400 to 469A.475, by the following targets

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ORS 469A.415 Electric companies to develop clean energy plans. (1) An electric company shall develop a clean energy plan for meeting the clean energy targets set forth in ORS 469A.410 concurrent with the development of each integrated resource plan

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ORS 469A.420 Emissions verification; baseline emissions determination; clean energy plan acknowledgment; annual report; compliance. (1)(a) For the purposes of verifying emissions and determining compliance with the clean energy targets set forth in ORS 469A.410, the Department of Environmental Quality shall determine

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ORS 469A.425 Community advisory group; membership; biennial report. (1) An electric company that files a clean energy plan under ORS 469A.415 shall convene a Community Benefits and Impacts Advisory Group. The members of the electric company’s Community Benefits and Impacts Advisory Group will be determined by the electric company with input from stakeholders that represent the interests of customers or affected entities within the electric company’s service territory. Members must include representatives of environmental justice communities and low-income ratepayers and may include representatives from other affected entities within the electric company’s service territory

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ORS 469A.430 Treatment of generation resources. For the purposes of determining compliance with ORS 469A.400 to 469A.475, electricity shall have the emission attributes of the underlying generating resource. [2021 c.508 §7]

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ORS 469A.435 Determining compliance with clean energy targets; unplanned emissions. (1)(a) In determining whether a retail electricity provider has complied with the clean energy targets set forth in ORS 469A.410, the Public Utility Commission shall take into consideration unplanned emissions in excess of the amount projected in an electric company’s clean energy plan submitted under ORS 469A.415 or the information provided by an electricity service supplier under ORS 469A.420 (3), to the extent

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ORS 469A.440 Temporary exemption; conflicts with reliability. (1) Upon its own motion or at the request of an electric company, the Public Utility Commission may open an investigation pursuant to ORS 756.515 (1) to determine whether to grant a temporary exemption to an electric company’s compliance with one or more of the requirements of ORS 469A.052 or a clean energy plan adopted pursuant to ORS 469A.400 to 469A.475

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ORS 469A.445 Cost cap for electric companies; determining compliance costs and rate impact; exemption. (1) An electric company or an organization that represents broad customer interests and that has a written agreement with an electric company pursuant to ORS 757.072 may request that the Public Utility Commission open an investigation to provide accounting for investments made, costs incurred or forecasted costs estimated by the electric company for the purpose of compliance with ORS 469A.400 to 469A.475. In making a request under this section, the petitioner shall provide information regarding the investments or costs sufficient to determine whether the investments or costs contribute to compliance with ORS 469A.400 to 469A.475

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ORS 469A.450 Cost cap for electricity service suppliers; comparable exemption and procedures. The Public Utility Commission shall provide the same opportunity to an electricity service supplier as provided an electric company under ORS 469A.445 to receive a comparable exemption from further compliance with the requirements of ORS 469A.400 to 469A.475. A comparable exemption shall be provided based on comparable procedures and criteria, to the extent the procedures and criteria apply to an electricity service supplier as applied to an electric company under ORS 469A.445 and adjusted to reflect applicable differences between electricity service suppliers and electric companies. [2021 c.508 §11]

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ORS 469A.455 Performance incentive for early compliance. In furtherance of the clean energy targets set forth in ORS 469A.410, the Public Utility Commission may apply a performance incentive for early compliance with one or more of the clean energy targets. [2021 c.508 §12]

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ORS 469A.460 No modification to renewable portfolio standards. The requirements of ORS 469A.400 to 469A.475 do not replace or modify the requirements of ORS 469A.005 to 469A.210. [2021 c.508 §13]

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ORS 469A.465 Rules; costs recovery. (1) The Public Utility Commission may adopt rules as necessary to implement ORS 469A.400 to 469A.475

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ORS 469A.475 Legislative findings; electricity markets; review of greenhouse gas emissions rates. (1)(a) The Legislative Assembly finds that existing and future electricity markets will play a critical role in the transformation of the electric sector to nonemitting sources, as well as enabling load serving entities to reduce costs and serve load reliably by accessing resource and load diversity

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ORS 469A.480 Electric company serving 25,000 or fewer consumers not subject to requirements. ORS 469A.400 to 469A.475 do not apply to an electric company, as defined in ORS 757.600, that serves electricity to 25,000 or fewer retail electricity consumers, as defined in ORS 757.600, located in this state. [2021 c.508 §17]

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