HB 1036 - DIGEST
(SEE ALSO PROPOSED 2ND SUB)

Requires that except as provided by this act, a state agency that is served by a public or private utility must purchase twenty percent of their total electricity in the form of qualified alternative energy resources from their local electric utility. In purchasing qualified alternative energy resources from their local electric utility, a state agency shall pay for qualified alternative energy resources at a rate no less than the retail price of a qualified alternative energy product that their local electric utility charges its customers under RCW 19.29A.090.

Provides that state agencies are not required to purchase qualified alternative energy resources from their local electric utility if the utility is exempt from offering a qualified alternative energy product.