{"id":2455,"date":"2014-12-21T20:35:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T03:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2014-12-21T20:51:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T03:51:39","slug":"utilities-transportation-commission-rule-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/utilities-transportation-commission-rule-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"UTILITIES &#038; TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION RULE CHANGES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Description:<\/strong>\u00a0 Modify the Washington State Utilities and Transportion \u201cpublic interest standard\u201d to include environmental good and other public interest items they currently can\u2019t consider and\/or re-define \u201cenergy conservation\u201d to include transportation energy conservation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why This Should Be Supported:<\/strong>\u00a0 Washington\u2019s electric utilities are in an excellent position to invest in public and private electric vehicle infrastructure.\u00a0 They have the skills, people, money to build and support electric vehicle charging networks.\u00a0 By simply allowing our electric utilities to compete in this area would be a win-win for all stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Options:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Allow EV credits to meet I-937 mandates<\/li>\n<li>Pass clear legislative authority to WUTC on EVs<\/li>\n<li>Encourage utilities to have EV transportation departments as in California and Oregon<\/li>\n<li>Enact EV reporting requirements for utilities<\/li>\n<li>Create a utility requirement for used EV batteries.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Estimated State Costs:\u00a0 $0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Legislative Summary:\u00a0 <\/strong>The UTC recently approved Puget Sound Energy\u2019s proposal to provide $500 rebates for residential Level 2 home charging equipment in their electric service area.\u00a0 PSE also is trying to get approval to use ratepayer money to install compressed natural gas filling stations \u2013 seems like a similar argument can be made for EV \u201cfilling stations\u201d.\u00a0 There is a mandate for CNG in the RCW.\u00a0 Also give manufacturers tax breaks if they deploy and maintain a network of charging stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modify the Washington State Utilities and Transportion \u201cpublic interest standard\u201d to include environmental good and other public interest items they currently can\u2019t consider and\/or re-define \u201cenergy conservation\u201d to include transportation energy conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[33,34],"class_list":["post-2455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative","tag-all","tag-currentagenda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}