Title 19 — Title 19 BUSINESS REGULATIONS—MISCELLANEOUS
111 chapters · 1,481 sections in this title.
RCW 19.280.010 Intent—Finding.
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It is the intent of the legislature to encourage the development of new safe, clean, and reliable energy resources to meet demand in Washington for affordable and reliable electricity. To achieve this end, the legislature finds it essential that electric utilities in Washington d…
RCW 19.280.020 Definitions.
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The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.(1) "Combined heat and power" means the sequential production of electricity and useful thermal energy from a common fuel source where, under normal operating conditions, t…
RCW 19.280.030 Development of a resource plan—Requirements of a resource plan—Clean energy action plan.
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Each electric utility must develop a plan consistent with this section.(1) Utilities with more than 25,000 customers that are not full requirements customers must develop or update an integrated resource plan by September 1, 2008. At a minimum, progress reports reflecting changin…
RCW 19.280.040 Investor-owned utilities submit integrated resource plans to the commission—Rules.
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(1) Investor-owned utilities shall submit integrated resource plans to the commission. The commission shall establish by rule the requirements for preparation and submission of integrated resource plans.(2) The commission may adopt additional rules as necessary to clarify the req…
RCW 19.280.050 Consumer-owned utilities.
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(1) The governing body of a consumer-owned utility that develops a plan under this chapter shall encourage participation of its consumers in development of the plans and progress reports and approve the plans and progress reports after it has provided public notice and hearing.(2…
RCW 19.280.060 Department's duties—Report to the legislature.
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*** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2575.SL) ***The department shall review the plans of consumer-owned utilities and investor-owned utilities, and data available from other state, regional, and national sources, and prepare an electronic report to the legislature aggregating the data an…
RCW 19.280.065 Department and commission meeting—Summary to the governor and legislature.
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(1) At least once every twelve months, the department and the commission shall jointly convene a meeting of representatives of the investor-owned utilities and consumer-owned utilities, regional planning organizations, transmission operators, energy analytics experts at Pacific N…
RCW 19.280.070 Combined heat and power systems—Valuation—Assessment.
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(1) The legislature finds that combined heat and power systems provide both energy and capacity resources. Failure to assess the electric output of combined heat and power systems as both an energy and a capacity resource may result in a failure to account for the total benefits …
RCW 19.280.080 Combined heat and power systems—Power purchase agreements.
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(1) The legislature finds that power purchase agreements of a minimum of fifteen years for the electric output of combined heat and power systems may be advantageous to both electric utilities and the owners or operators of combined heat and power systems.(2) Electric utilities w…
RCW 19.280.090 Combined heat and power systems—Report to the legislature.
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The Washington State University extension energy program may electronically submit an annual report to the appropriate legislative committees on the planned and completed combined heat and power facilities in the state, including but not limited to the following information: Numb…
RCW 19.280.100 Distributed energy resources planning.
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(1) The legislature finds that the proliferation of distributed energy resources across the distribution system is rapidly transforming the relationships between electric utilities and their retail electric customers. The legislature finds that distributed energy resources planni…
RCW 19.280.110 Transmission services—Consideration to conditional firm service.
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(1) Electric utilities must in their planning and selection of renewable resources give reasonable consideration, consistent with prudent utility practice, to renewable resources that would use transmission services considered to be conditional firm under the tariff of the releva…