Each electric company subject to ORS 469A.415 must:

1. (1) In preparing the CEP, the utility must allow a meaningful number of opportunities for engagement that are open to all members of the public. Such opportunities must include opportunities to contribute information and ideas, receive information, and pose questions to the utility including but not limited to requests to run portfolios, futures, scenarios, etc. These opportunities for engagement must include opportunities that are accessible to members of the public with limited resources.
2. (2) Draft its CEP in language that is as clear and simple as possible, with the goal that it may be understood by non-expert members of the public.
3. (3) Include in its CEP the information required by ORS 469A.415 and annual goals for actions that are consistent with the electric company’s long-term resource strategy and action plan.

4. (4) Define and describe in its CEP the community benefits indicators that the electric company plans to track as the company implements its Clean Energy Plan, including the metrics adopted in IRP portfolio scoring.

   1. (a) The electric company must develop community benefits indicators upon consideration of public input, including input from environmental justice communities in Oregon.
   2. (b) The electric company must include at least one community benefit indicator that addresses community resiliency.
   3. (c) The electric company must describe how the community benefits indicators will inform utility implementation decisions through mechanisms such as RFP requirements, RFP non-price scores, and program design criteria and metrics.
5. (5) Report measured values for all community benefits indicators defined in the CEP for the previous three years, to the extent available. If measured values for a community benefits indicator are not available for the previous three years, the electric company must explain how it plans to measure that community benefits indicator in future years.

6. (6) Demonstrate in its CEP that the electric company’s IRP portfolio analysis accounts for:

   1. (a) Any reasonably foreseeable impacts on communities within or partly within the utility’s Oregon service territory associated with resource options, including contributions to resiliency; and
   2. (b) The costs and benefits of offsetting generation from fossil fuel resources with community-based renewable energy resource options.
7. (7) Include in its CEP targets for community-based renewable energy that facilitate greenhouse gas emissions reductions, promote community resiliency, and are reflected in the utility’s near-term action plan and long-term resource strategy.
8. (8) Demonstrate in its CEP how the IRP Preferred Portfolio achieves the emissions reductions targets set forth in ORS 469A.410, and include the verification of projected emissions reductions available from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality pursuant to ORS 469A.420.
9. (9) Demonstrate in its CEP how the electric company’s long-term resource strategy and near-term action plan provide for the best balance of expected costs and associated risks and uncertainties for the electric company and its customers, while considering impacts to communities and the pace of greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
10. (10) Demonstrate in its CEP that the electric company’s action plan represents continual progress towards meeting the clean energy targets set forth in ORS 469A.410, including demonstrating a projected reduction of annual greenhouse gas emissions, and that the electric company is taking actions as soon as practicable to facilitate rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions at reasonable costs to retail electric consumers.
11. (11) Include in its CEP the electric company's two most recent annual emissions data reports filed with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.
12. (12) Include a narrative explanation and reference to the appropriate CEP section and, if applicable, subsection for the electric company’s response to any specific direction from the Commission to undertake or provide additional information or analysis in the CEP since the filing of its last CEP.
13. (13) Cost-effective grid enhancing technologies strategic plan. An electric company subject to Oregon Laws 2025 Chapter 391 must include a section that provides its strategic plan setting forth the information required by that law, using the definition of cost-effectiveness and criteria established by the Commission.

Statutory/Other Authority

ORS 756.060 & OAR 469A.465

Statutes/Other Implemented

ORS 756.040, ORS 469A.415, ORS 469A.420, ORS 469A.425, ORS 469A.430, ORS 469A.435, ORS 469A.440, ORS 469A.445, ORS 469A.450, ORS 469A.455, ORS 469A.460 & ORS 469A.475

History

PUC 2-2026, adopt filed 03/23/2026, effective 03/23/2026