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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 1178
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB, Representative HELM; Representatives GAMBA, OWENS
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced.The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Requires 10 percent of the power sold in this state by a power company to be made by
certain power plants. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6).
Requires 10 percent of the electricity sold in this state by each electric company that makes
sales to 25,000 or more retail electricity consumers to be generated by small-scale renewable energy
facilities or certain biomass facilities.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to small-scale renewable energy; amending ORS 469A.210; and prescribing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1. ORS 469A.210 is amended to read:
469A.210. (1) The Legislative Assembly finds and declares that [community-based renewable en-
ergy projects]:
(a) Small-scale renewable energy facilities, including but not limited to marine renewable
energy resources that are either developed in accordance with the Territorial Sea Plan adopted
pursuant to ORS 196.471 or located on structures adjacent to the coastal shorelands, are an essen-
tial element of this state’s energy future[.];
(b) Small-scale renewable energy facilities are one of the integral parts of this state’s
emergency preparedness and, when paired with energy storage and other emerging technol-
ogy, help ensure that electricity will be available during catastrophic natural disasters;
(c) A diverse portfolio of electricity generation facilities that includes small-scale
renewable energy facilities helps reduce the risk of power outages and other technical and
financialfailures;
(d) A diverse portfolio of electricity generation facilities that includes small-scale
renewable energy facilities helps reduce the need to construct transmission lines to supply
electricity to retail electricity consumers from a single large-scale electricity generation fa-
cility;
(e) Supplying electricity to retail electricity consumers that is generated by small-scale
renewable energy facilities is necessary in order to meet the renewable portfolio standards
established under ORS 469A.005 to 469A.210 and therefore necessary for improving this
state’s air quality and public health;
(f) Small-scale renewable energy facilities have a smaller footprint on the landscape than
large-scale electricity generation facilities and, therefore, are more easily incorporated into
existinginfrastructure;
(g) There are substantial existing small-scale renewable energy facilities that have the
NOTE:Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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potential to continue to produce renewable energy well into the future;
(h) There is substantial potential for adding small-scale renewable energy facilities; and
(i) Absent the requirement established in this section, electric companies might other-
wise procure electricity only from large-scale electricity generation facilities.
(2) For purposes related to the findings in subsection (1) of this section, by the year 2030, at
least 10 percent of the [aggregate electrical capacity of all electric companies] electricity sold in this
state by each electric company that [make] makes sales of electricity to 25,000 or more retail
electricity consumers in this state must be composed of electricity generated by one or both of the
following sources:
(a) Small-scale renewable energy [projects] facilities with a generating capacity of 20 megawatts
or less that are not owned by a person that is an electric company and that generate electricity
utilizing a type of energy described in ORS 469A.025; or
(b) Facilities that are not owned by a person that is an electric company and that generate
electricity using biomass and that also generate thermal energy for a secondary purpose.
(3) Regardless of the facility’s nameplate capacity, any single facility described in subsection
(2)(b) of this section may be used to comply with the requirement specified in subsection (2) of this
section for up to 20 megawatts of capacity.
(4) Beginning on the effective date of this 2025 Act and until the year 2030, as necessary
to comply with the requirements of subsection (2) of this section, an electric company sub-
ject to subsection (2) of this section shall make best efforts to continually increase the an-
nual percentage of electricity sold in this state by the electric company that is generated by
sources described in subsection (2)(a) and (b) of this section.
(5) The Public Utility Commission shall adopt rules as necessary to implement this sec-
tion.
SECTION 2. This 2025 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2025
regular session of the Eighty-third Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die.
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