Clean Energy Transformation Act. In 2019, the Legislature passed the Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA), which requires Washington's electric utilities to meet 100 percent of their retail electric load using non-emitting and renewable resources by January 1, 2045. CETA requires electric utilities to eliminate coal-fired resources from their allocation of electricity by December 31, 2025, and make all retail sales of electricity greenhouse gas neutral by January 1, 2030.
Under CETA, market customers are defined as nonresidential retail electric customers of an electric utility that:
An affected market customer is a customer of an investor-owned utility (IOU) who becomes a market customer after May 7, 2019. Affected market customers must comply with the greenhouse gas neutral standard and the 100 percent clean electricity standard under CETA.
Affected market customers of consumer-owned utilities, as well as IOUs, must comply with the greenhouse gas neutral standard and the 100 percent clean electricity standard under CETA.