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October 2022 Newsletter: Community benefits, equity considerations, CRITFC Energy Vision

Featured Op-ed: Lessons from California on preventing power failures during heat waves The Coalition wrote an op-ed that was published in the Seattle Times on October 10th, titled “Lessons from…

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September 2022 Newsletter: Region falls short on energy efficiency, autumn recipes, fall conference

Featured NW Energy Coalition’s Fall Conference: Delivering Community Clean Energy Just announced! Register today for the NW Energy Coalition’s annual Fall Conference, “Delivering Community Clean Energy.” The two half-day virtual…

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July 2022 Newsletter: Strategic Plan, Summer, and Infrastructure

Featured Strategic Plan 2022-2025 The NW Energy Coalition recently published our 2022-2025 Strategic Plan, which will guide our work for the next four years. The Strategic Plan includes our updated…

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June 2022 Newsletter: Clean cars, lower Snake draft report, and June-uary tips

Featured Decarbonizing the Northwest webinar series We had the first of four sessions in our “Decarbonizing the Northwest” summer webinar series on June 1 and June 15. On June 15,…

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May 2022 Newsletter: Clean Codes, TYFYS, and more

Featured Clean codes for buildings pass in Washington! On Earth Day, April 22, the Washington State Building Code Council passed several commercial energy code updates that will reduce carbon pollution from new commercial…

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April 2022 Newsletter: Creating Clean Buildings in the NW

This is the first installment of a monthly newsletter from us at the NW Energy Coalition. We hope to bring you timely, relevant updates and opportunities in a format that…

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Flexible demand webinar explores potential of customer-side technologies as an energy resource

Welcome to a conversation with Geoff Wickes, Jeff Harris, Conrad Eustis, and Tony Koch about how grid-integrated water heaters and other customer-side technologies can contribute to electric system efficiency and…

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Inslee halts electricity shut-offs

On Friday, April 17th, Governor Inslee signed a new proclamation to help utilities across the state preserve access to essential utility services and alleviate economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.…

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Coalition finds DEIS energy analysis inadequate and misleading, calls for new study

The following is a summary of the formal comments the NW Energy Coalition is submitting on April 13, 2020 in response to the Columbia River System Operations Draft Environmental Impact…

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