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Post by account_disabled on Mar 3, 2024 1:11:29 GMT -6
Portland General Electric has presented a new integrated resource plan to the Oregon Public Utility Commission for approval. This new plan focuses on adding more renewable power, capturing more energy efficiency and strengthening partnerships with customers to help balance energy supply and demand during periods of peak energy use. Developed through a multi-year research and engagement process that incl Betting Number Data uded constructing and testing 43 different portfolios to identify resource actions needed between now and 2025, the plan calls for: 150 average megawatts of additional renewable resources by 2023. A similar amount (157 average megawatts) of additional cost-effective energy efficiency measures. Increased reliance on demand response to help balance sources and uses of electricity during peak months. This includes 141 megawatts during winter months, 211 megawatts during summer months, and 4 megawatts of customer battery storage. Additional actions to help meet capacity needs resulting from expiring contracts and the retirement of baseload coal plants like PGE’s Boardman Generating Station. PGE filed the plan with the OPUC July 19, kicking off a public review process before commissioners decide whether the utility has identified an appropriate least-cost, least-risk plan to reliably serve customers, consistent with applicable state and federal energy policies. Under the plan, PGE will seek to meet customers’ energy needs without building greenhouse gas-emitting resources, even as the company prepares to cease coal-fired operations at Boardman at the end of 2020.
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