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Seattle City Light Seeks New Renewable Energy Resources
Seattle City Light is actively pursuing opportunities to purchase up to 50 megawatts of new renewable energy.
If successful, such purchases will help City Light on its way to meeting the new, renewable energy requirements of voter-approved Initiative 937. The initiative requires large utilities in Washington to have renewable energy resources developed after 1997 make up at least 15 percent of their energy portfolios by 2020.
Such purchases also support the city’s Climate Action Now Initiative, which seeks to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions tied to climate change.
"Seattle City Light is committed to providing low-cost, reliable, environmentally responsible electricity to meet the needs of our customers," Superintendent Jorge Carrasco said. "We look forward to hearing from the generators of new renewable energy resources who can help us continue to achieve that goal and hit the targets set by I-937."
The 50 megawatts of renewable energy City Light is targeting could come from one large project, several smaller projects or from a purchase of renewable energy credits.
City Light’s preference is to acquire new renewable energy resources that meet the base load needs of its commercial, industrial and residential customers. This search will be by competitive bid, not least cost, which means the shape, capacity, seasonality and other factors associated with the energy resources will be considered.
City Light already contracts for renewable energy with several providers, including wind energy, biomass and landfill gas.
In 2005, City Light became the first large utility in the United States to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. It remains the only large utility in the country to reach that status.
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