HB1416 – Applying emissions reduction requirements of the Clean Energy Act to nonresidential customers in public utility areas that produce their own power or buy it on the market.
Prime Sponsor – Representative Doglio (D; 22nd District; Olympia) (Co-Sponsor Ramel – D) (By request of the Department of Commerce)
Current status – Had a hearing in the Senate Committee on Environment, Energy and Technology March 17th and passed out of committee March 24th. Referred to Rules and passed by the Senate April 12th.
Next step would be – To the Governor.
Legislative tracking page for the bill.

Passed the House –
Had a hearing in the House Committee on Environment and Energy January 30th; passed out of committee February 2nd. Referred to Rules, and passed the House February 9th.

Summary –
The bill would expand the definition of “market customers” in the Clean Energy Transformation Act (aka the cap and invest bill) to include those customers of the public utilities. These are nonresidential customers that buy electricity from other sources than the utility with which they’re directly interconnected or generate it to meet all of their own needs. I think this change would require them to be “greenhouse gas neutral” by 2030 (getting no more than 20% of their power from natural gas and offsetting those emissions through several options), and to get 100% of it from non-emitting sources by 2045. They would also be required to pursue all cost-effective, reliable, and feasible conservation and efficiency resources, and demand response in the process; to achieve the targets at the lowest reasonable cost, considering risk; to consider acquisition of existing renewable resources; and to rely on renewable resources and energy storage when that was consistent with the other requirements. They’d be required to meet the state’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets.