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(The Center Square) – In initial Tuesday night returns, Initiative 2066, which aims to ensure natural gas remains an energy choice in Washington state, was leading by a margin of 51.2% to 48.7%.
More specifically, I-2066 requires utilities to provide natural gas service to any person or business requesting it and bans the Washington Utility and Trade Commission from approving multi-year ...
If passed, Initiative 2066 would repeal provisions of a new state law meant to hasten Puget Sound Energy’s transition away from natural gas. It also bars cities and counties from prohibiting ...
At the 2024 meeting of the North American Carbon World, Director of the Washington State Department of Ecology, Laura Watson, suggested that the result of the reason for the sudden drop in settlement price for carbon allowances in the first auction of the year was a result of the initiative getting on the ballot. [5] [6]
The purpose of the UTC is to regulate the rates, services, and practices of privately owned utilities and transportation companies, including electric, telecommunications, natural gas, water, and solid waste collection companies, pipelines, commercial ferries, buses, and motor carriers.
In 2020, Washington had a total summer capacity of 30,669 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 116,114 GWh. [2] The electrical energy generation mix in 2022 was 67.6% hydroelectric, 12.5% natural gas, 8.4% nuclear, 6.9% wind, 3.1% coal, and 1.1% biomass which includes most refuse-derived fuel .
The people of Washington have said, do not disincentive the use of natural gas.” A constitutional challenge to I-2066 is set to be argued in King County Superior Court on March 21.
Washington state Sen. Patty Murray co-signed the letter. Natural gas in WA Over the past few years, Washingtonians have begun to address the environmental and medical impacts associated with ...