UTC Case Docket Details

Event History

• 12/23/2025 -- Allowed (Commissioner Rendahl moved to issue an Order allowing the revisions to Tariff WN U-2, Schedule 111, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cap and Invest Adjustment, filed by Puget Sound Energy on October 31, 2025, as revised on December 23, 2025, in Docket UG-250843 to become effective on January 1, 2026, subject to the conditions that PSE: 1. Prudence is not being determined and a final prudence determination would be made at the end of the first 4-year compliance period and that the company should be prepared to provide supporting documents, on its decision making at that time, to demonstrate the prudence of its actions. 2. Require PSE to specify the amount of the state carbon reduction charge on it’s customer bills rather than including the amount in the other natural gas charge and credits or delivery charge on the bill by June 6, 2026 or as soon as the company can make that change. 3. Rephrase the State Carbon Reduction Credit to CCA Customer Benefit on its tariff and on bills on or after February 1, 2026, 4. Allow PSE to use its targeted decarbonization funding over multiple years and enter into multiple year contracts with its partners and community action agencies where practicable. 5. Require PSE to hire a third-party to conduct an evaluation of the customer benefit and cost effectiveness of decarbonization projects, and to work with parties to ensure the third-part evaluation includes mutually agreeable ways to measure benefits of the projects. 6. (a) provide with next year’s filing workpapers that include a complete and detailed accounting of all Climate Commitment Act (CCA) funded program administrative costs for CCA funds including but not limited to program management, planning and reporting, regulatory compliance, customer outreach and enrollment, contractor management, internal labor, and overhead allocations, and (b) provide three further detailed reports including (1) an internal labor costs report which shall identify: i. job title or role, ii. fully loaded labor rate, and iii. hours charged to the program administration, (2) an allocated or shared overhead cost report which shall include: i. identification of allocated overhead costs (in high level report) ii. allocation methodology used iii. allocation factor(s) iv. justification for why the cost applies (3) a reconciliation showing how the total costs tie to the initially budgeted costs including narrative describing variances. (c) specify in the Request for Proposal (RFP) language that responsive proposals should minimize cost impacts on low-income, residential, and small business customers. (d) indicate in the RFP language that it can include energy efficiency measures, zero-emission fuel sources, increasing avoided cost or energy efficiency rebates for all customers, or select customers, and (e) in the event this new RFP does not yield sufficient viable projects PSE may propose that funds be used for additional low-income projects including weatherization, decarbonization, conservation, deferred maintenance projects, heat pump window units, energy efficiency measures, rebates, or other programs to minimize cost impacts on low-income customers. Commissioner Doumit seconded the motion. The motion carried (3:0) )
• 01/09/2026 -- Closed
• 12/23/2025 -- Open Meeting
• 11/03/2025 -- Pending
• 11/03/2025 -- Open