Letter to Washington State Senate Environment, Water and Energy Committee on HB 1712

CRS believes Washington State’s HB 1712 could negatively impact the clean energy industry because as currently written the inclusion of null power in the definition of renewable resource and the ambiguous nature of the definition of null power constitutes a potential double claim of renewable energy attributes. Generation owners in Washington whose null power was defined elsewhere as renewable would become ineligible to sell their RECs into a Green-e Energy certified product.