House Bill 2021

Requires retail electricity providers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity sold to Oregon consumers to 80 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2030, 90 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2035 and 100 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2040. Requires electric companies to develop clean energy plans and electricity service suppliers to report information for meeting clean energy targets. Directs Department of Environment Quality to determine amount of emissions reduction necessary for each retail electricity provider to meet clean energy targets. Limits cumulative rate impact for compliance to six percent of annual revenue requirements. Permits performance incentive for early compliance. Requires electric company that files clean energy plan to convene Community Benefits and Impacts Advisory Group with input from stakeholders who represent interests of customers and affected entities and communities. Requires electric company to file biennial report with Public Utility Commission that assesses community benefits and impacts of electric company. Directs State Department of Energy to convene work group to examine opportunities to encourage development of small scale and community-based renewable energy projects and report findings to interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 30, 2022. Sunsets December 15, 2022. Permits electric company, if agreed to and in coordination with government, to provide program of rates or charges to serve retail electricity consumers that covers costs of electricity generated from renewable energy resources or nonemitting energy resources or paired with unbundled renewable energy certificates. Defines "government." Requires electricity service suppliers to publicly disclose aggregated energy supply mix and associated emissions of power sources. Establishes contractor labor standards in construction or repowering of large-scale projects. Defines "large-scale project." Prohibits Energy Facility Siting Council from issuing site certificate for new generating facility that produces energy from fossil fuels unless facility generates only nonemitting electricity. Prohibits council from approving amendment of site certificate for generating facility in manner that would increase carbon dioxide emissions from operation of generating facility. Creates grant program within State Department of Energy to provide grants to Indian tribes, public bodies and consumer-owned utilities to plan or develop community renewable energy projects. Establishes Community Renewable Investment Fund within State Treasury for purposes of grant program for community renewable energy projects. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Community Renewable Investment Fund. Increases, from eight percent to 10 percent by 2030, requirement that aggregate electrical capacity of all electric companies be composed of electricity from small-scale renewable energy projects or facilities using biomass. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

In the House of Representatives

• Pam Marsh

  Sponsor

• Khanh Pham

  Chief co-sponsor

In the Senate

• Michael Dembrow

  Sponsor

• Lee Beyer

  Chief co-sponsor

• House of Representatives, third reading35–20

  Passed · Jun 25 · 4 present

• Senate, third reading16–12

  Passed · Jun 26 · 2 present

• House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted May 27

• House of Representatives committee amendmentAdopted

  Adopted Jun 23

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In the House of Representatives Mar 2 – Jun 25

1. Mar 2Introduced
2. Sent to Energy and Environment
3. Mar 22Heard in Energy and Environment
4. Apr 5Heard in Energy and Environment
5. Apr 7Heard in Energy and Environment
6. Apr 12Heard in Energy and Environment
7. Apr 15Energy and Environment reported it without a recommendation, and that it go to Revenue
8. Sent to Revenue
9. May 13Heard in Revenue
10. May 20Heard in Revenue
11. May 27Revenue recommended it as amended, and that it go to Ways and Means
12. Sent to Ways and Means
13. Jun 11Sent to Transportation and Economic Development Subcommittee
14. Jun 15Heard in Transportation and Economic Development Subcommittee
15. Returned to Ways and Means
16. Jun 18Heard in Ways and Means
17. Jun 23Ways and Means recommended it as amended
18. Jun 24Read a second time
19. Jun 25Passed the House of Representatives, 35 to 20

In the Senate Jun 25 – Jun 26

1. Jun 25Arrived in the Senate
2. Sent to Ways and Means
3. Jun 26Ways and Means recommended it
4. Read a second time
5. Passed the Senate, 16 to 12

To the Governor Jun 29 – Sep 25

1. Jun 29Signed in the House of Representatives
2. Jun 30Signed in the Senate
3. Jul 19Signed by the Governor
4. Sep 25Became chapter 508 of Oregon Laws 2021, in force from September 25, 2021