The UTC must:

• Improve how utilities engage and involve customers and stakeholders, especially from highly-impacted and vulnerable communities;
• Establish in the rule measurable indicators for vulnerable populations and highly-impacted communities, including health improvements, job training, and resilient power;
• Add milestones to meet Clean Energy Standards that provide a way for the UTC to measure progress and ensure vulnerable populations and highly-impacted communities receive environmental and non-environmental benefits in the transition;
• Articulate how utilities must report on equity indicators and milestones over time.

The details of implementing a law are important and Washington has the chance to lead the way in how to ensure that our electricity system is clean and equitable. Contact the UTC today and tell them to strengthen the 100% clean electricity law.

The UTC regulates the investor-owned utilities that together serve the majority of people in our state. We need them to ensure that these utilities are held accountable to all the parts of this historic law. This rule is a strong start, but it needs further improvements to ensure progress will be made to make our electricity system more equitable.

Send in a comment today! The UTC needs to hear from you that you want key changes to the draft rule before it is finalized.

By lifting up your voice on this important issue, you will let the UTC know that people across Washington support and actively work to achieve climate action, and are looking for a strong rule coming from the UTC to ensure clear and effective regulatory oversight of investor-owned utilities under this law.

Onward,

Eleanor Bastian
Climate and Clean Energy Policy Manager