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OR Rev Stat § 469.950 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469 - Energy; Conservation Programs; Energy Facilities|Section 469.950 - Authority to enter into interstate cooperative agreements to control power costs and rates; Bonneville Power Administration.

The State of Oregon shall pursue and may enter into an interstate cooperative agreement with the states of Washington, Idaho and Montana for the purpose of making collective efforts to control Bonneville Power Administration wholesale power costs and rates by studying and developing a region-wide response to: (1) Federal attempts to increase arbitrarily the interest rates on federal funds previously used to build public facilities in the Pacific Northwest. (2) Federal initiatives to sell the Bonneville Power Administration. (3) Bonneville Power Administration rate increase and budget expenditure proposals in excess of their actual needs. (4) Regional uses of surplus firm power, including uses by existing or newly attracted Pacific Northwest industries, to provide long-term use of the surplus for job development. (5) Power transmission intertie access. [1985 c.780 §1] Note: 469.950 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 469 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 469.990 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469 - Energy; Conservation Programs; Energy Facilities|Section 469.990 - Penalties.

(1) In addition to any penalties under subsection (2) of this section, a person who discloses confidential information in violation of ORS 469.090, willfully or with criminal negligence, as defined by ORS 161.085, may be subject to removal from office or immediate dismissal from public employment. (2)(a) Willful disclosure of confidential information in violation of ORS 469.090 is a Class A misdemeanor. Notwithstanding ORS 161.635, the maximum fine for a violation is $10,000. (b) Disclosure of confidential information in violation of ORS 469.090 with criminal negligence, as defined by ORS 161.085, is a Class A violation. (3) Any person who violates ORS 469.825 commits a Class A misdemeanor. [1975 c.606 §20; subsection (3) enacted as 1981 c.49 §11; 1999 c.1051 §185; 2011 c.597 §212]
OR Rev Stat § 469.994 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469 - Energy; Conservation Programs; Energy Facilities|Section 469.994

[1981 c.894 §8; 1983 c.346 §5; 1989 c.706 §18; 1989 c.880 §13a; 1991 c.734 §38; 1997 c.534 §13; renumbered 469B.991 in 2011]
OR Rev Stat § 469A.010 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 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. (2)(a) Any electricity that the Bonneville Power Administration has designated as environmentally preferred power, or has given a similar designation for electricity generated from a renewable resource, may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard. (b) Any electricity generated from a renewable energy source by a facility may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard, subject to ORS 469A.135, if the facility: (A) Burned coal as a fuel source; (B) Completely ceases to burn coal as a fuel source; and (C) Converts to a renewable energy source after January 1, 2012. (3) The Legislative Assembly finds that hydroelectric energy is an important renewable energy source and electricity from hydroelectric generators may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard as provided in ORS 469A.005 to 469A.210. [2007 c.301 §2; 2011 c.225 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 469A.020 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 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. (2) Electricity from a generating facility, other than a hydroelectric facility, that became operational before January 1, 1995, may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard if the electricity is attributable to capacity or efficiency upgrades made on or after January 1, 1995. (3) Electricity from a hydroelectric facility that became operational before January 1, 1995, may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard if the electricity is attributable to efficiency upgrades made on or after January 1, 1995. If an efficiency upgrade is made to a Bonneville Power Administration facility, only that portion of the electricity generation attributable to Oregon’s share of the electricity may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard. (4) Subject to the limit imposed by ORS 469A.025 (5), electricity from a hydroelectric facility that became operational before January 1, 1995, may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard if the facility is certified as a low-impact hydroelectric facility on or after January 1, 1995, by a national certification organization recognized by the State Department of Energy by rule, and if the facility is either: (a) Owned by an electric utility; or (b) Not owned by an electric utility and located in Oregon and licensed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under the Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791a et seq., or exempt from such license. (5) Electricity from a generating facility located in this state that uses biomass and that became operational before January 1, 1995, may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard if the facility meets the requirements of the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-617) on March 4, 2010. (6) A facility located in this state that generates electricity from direct combustion of municipal solid waste and that became operational before January 1, 1995, may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard for up to 11 average megawatts of electricity generated per calendar year. [2007 c.301 §3; 2010 c.17 §1; 2010 c.71 §1; 2016 c.28 §4]
OR Rev Stat § 469A.027 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 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] Note: 469A.027 to 469A.031 were enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but were not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 469A or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
OR Rev Stat § 469A.029 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 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] Note: See note under 469A.027.
OR Rev Stat § 469A.031 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 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] Note: See note under 469A.027.
OR Rev Stat § 469A.050 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 469A.050 - Applicable standard.

(1) Electric utilities must comply with the applicable renewable portfolio standard described in ORS 469A.052 or 469A.055. (2) Electricity service suppliers must comply with the renewable portfolio standard established under ORS 469A.065. [2007 c.301 §5]
OR Rev Stat § 469A.060 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 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: (a) Compliance with the standard would require the electric utility to acquire electricity in excess of the electric utility’s projected load requirements in any calendar year; and (b) Acquiring the additional electricity would require the electric utility to substitute qualifying electricity for electricity derived from an energy source other than coal, natural gas or petroleum. (2)(a) Electric utilities are not required to comply with a renewable portfolio standard to the extent that compliance would require the electric utility to substitute qualifying electricity for electricity available to the electric utility under contracts for electricity from dams that are owned by Washington public utility districts and that are located between the Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia River’s junction with the Snake River. The provisions of this subsection apply only to contracts entered into before June 6, 2007, and to renewal or replacement contracts for contracts entered into before June 6, 2007. (b) If a contract described in paragraph (a) of this subsection expires and is not renewed or replaced, the electric utility must comply, in the calendar year following the expiration of the contract, with the renewable portfolio standard applicable to the electric utility. (3) A consumer-owned utility is not required to comply with a renewable portfolio standard to the extent that compliance would require the consumer-owned utility to reduce the consumer-owned utility’s purchases of the lowest priced electricity from the Bonneville Power Administration pursuant to section 5 of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act of 1980, P.L. 96-501, as in effect on June 6, 2007. The exemption provided by this subsection applies only to firm commitments for BPA electricity that the Bonneville Power Administration has assured will be available to a consumer-owned utility to meet agreed portions of the consumer-owned utility’s load requirements for a defined period of time. [2007 c.301 §8; 2016 c.28 §26]
OR Rev Stat § 469A.065 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 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]
OR Rev Stat § 469A.070 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 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: (a) Using bundled renewable energy certificates issued or acquired during the compliance year; (b) Subject to the limitations described in ORS 469A.140 and 469A.145, using unbundled or banked renewable energy certificates; or (c) Making alternative compliance payments as described in ORS 469A.180. (2) Bundled or unbundled renewable energy certificates that are issued or acquired by an electric utility or electricity service supplier on or before March 31 in a calendar year may be used by the utility or supplier to comply with the renewable portfolio standard applicable to the utility or supplier for the preceding calendar year. [2007 c.301 §10]
OR Rev Stat § 469A.075 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 469A.075 - Implementation plan for electric companies; annual reports; rules.

(1) An electric company that is subject to a renewable portfolio standard shall develop an implementation plan for meeting the requirements of the renewable portfolio standard and file the implementation plan with the Public Utility Commission. Implementation plans must be revised and updated at least once every two years. (2) At a minimum, an implementation plan must contain: (a) Annual targets for acquisition and use of qualifying electricity; and (b) The estimated cost of meeting the annual targets, including the cost of transmission, the cost of firming, shaping and integrating qualifying electricity, the cost of alternative compliance payments and the cost of acquiring renewable energy certificates. (3) The commission shall acknowledge an implementation plan no later than six months after the implementation plan is filed with the commission. The commission may acknowledge the implementation plan subject to conditions specified by the commission. (4) The commission shall adopt rules: (a) Establishing requirements for the content of implementation plans; (b) Establishing the procedure for acknowledgment of implementation plans under this section, including provisions for public comment; (c) Providing for the integration of an implementation plan with the integrated resource planning guidelines established by the commission for the purpose of planning for the least-cost, least-risk acquisition of resources; and (d) Providing for the evaluation of competitive bidding processes that allow for diverse ownership of renewable energy sources that generate qualifying electricity. (5) An implementation plan filed under this section may include procedures that will be used by the electric company to determine whether the costs of constructing a facility that generates electricity from a renewable energy source, or the costs of acquiring bundled or unbundled renewable energy certificates, are consistent with the renewable portfolio standards of the commission relating to least-cost, least-risk planning for acquisition of resources. [2007 c.301 §11; 2016 c.28 §6]
OR Rev Stat § 469A.130 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 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. (2) The validity of a bundled renewable energy certificate for purposes of compliance with the applicable renewable portfolio standard is not affected by the substitution of any other electricity for the qualifying electricity at any point after the time of generation. [2007 c.301 §14]
OR Rev Stat § 469A.132 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 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: (a) Shall be provided for pursuant to this subsection as part of the system established under ORS 469A.130; (b) Shall be subject to the same requirements for issuance, transfer and use as all other renewable energy certificates created pursuant to the system established under ORS 469A.130; and (c) May be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard if: (A) The facility that generates the thermal energy for which the renewable energy certificate is issued meets the requirements of ORS 469A.020 and 469A.135 for the electricity generated using biomass at the facility; and (B) Consistent with the provisions of ORS 469A.025 (3), the thermal energy is not generated through the combustion of wood that has been treated with chemical preservatives such as creosote, pentachlorophenol or chromated copper arsenate. (2) For purposes of issuing renewable energy certificates under this section, 3,412,000 British thermal units are equivalent to one megawatt-hour. [2016 c.28 §16; 2019 c.76 §1]
OR Rev Stat § 469A.135 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 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: (a) The facility that generates the qualifying electricity for which the bundled renewable energy certificate is issued is located in the United States and within the geographic boundary of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council; and (b) The qualifying electricity for which the bundled renewable energy certificate is issued is delivered to: (A) The Bonneville Power Administration; (B) The transmission system of an electric utility; (C) A delivery point designated by the electric utility for the purpose of subsequent delivery to the electric utility; or (D) A delivery point mutually agreed to by a distribution utility and an electricity service supplier for the purpose of subsequent delivery to the distribution utility serving the customer of the electricity service supplier. (2) An unbundled renewable energy certificate may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard if the facility that generates the qualifying electricity with which the unbundled renewable energy certificate is associated is located within the geographic boundary of the Western Electricity Coordinating Council. (3) Renewable energy certificates issued for any electricity that the Bonneville Power Administration has designated as environmentally preferred power, or has given a similar designation for electricity generated from a renewable resource, may be used to comply with a renewable portfolio standard without regard to the location of the generating facility. (4) This section does not affect the obligations or requirements: (a) Imposed under or agreed to in a contract with a distribution utility; (b) Imposed under tariff schedules approved by the Public Utility Commission; (c) Imposed under an approved open access transmission tariff; or (d) Imposed under rules adopted by the commission under ORS 757.600 to 757.687. [2007 c.301 §15; 2016 c.28 §9]
OR Rev Stat § 469A.145 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 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. (2) The limitation imposed by subsection (1) of this section does not apply to unbundled renewable energy certificates associated with electricity generated in this state from a renewable energy source by a net metering facility, as defined in ORS 757.300, or another generating facility that is not directly connected to a distribution or transmission system. (3) The limitation imposed by subsection (1) of this section does not apply to unbundled renewable energy certificates associated with electricity generated in this state by a qualifying facility under ORS 758.505 to 758.555. (4) The limitation imposed by subsection (1) of this section does not apply to an electricity service supplier for purposes of meeting the renewable portfolio standard described in ORS 469A.065 during compliance years before 2021. [2007 c.301 §17; 2016 c.28 §10]
OR Rev Stat § 469A.147 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 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: (1) Up to 100 percent of the standard described in ORS 469A.052 (3)(a); and (2) Up to 75 percent of the standard described in ORS 469A.052 (3)(b) or (c). [2014 c.100 §2]
OR Rev Stat § 469A.150 (2021)
2021 Oregon Revised Statutes|Volume : 13 - Housing, Games, Environment|Chapter 469A - Renewable Portfolio Standards|Section 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]