A panel is measuring the effectiveness of the renewable energy law in order to avoid a ballot fight.
A panel is measuring the effectiveness of the renewable energy law in order to avoid a ballot fight.
State lawmakers in 2007 adopted aggressive standards that require the state’s largest utilities to meet 25 percent of their customers’ demand with renewable power by 2025. Smaller utilities are subject to the mandates, too, but with lower requirements unless their retail sales exceed 3 percent of the state’s total retail power sales.
But a small group of public utilities led by Umatilla Electric Cooperative asked the Legislature last year to change the definition of qualifying resources under the law to include the region’s massive supply of hydropower.
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