Puget Sound Energy

A big milestone at our Beaver Creek wind facility in Montana this month as the final wind turbine was just installed. Even though all 88 turbines are now standing, we are nowhere near complete. More work needs to be done in the coming months before the wind farm is operational in August of 2025. Learn more at psemontana.com

It’s National Drive Electric Week! Since this time last year, PSE launched three new programs aimed at making it easier and more affordable for our customers to switch to an electric vehicle by expanding access to EV charging. If you’re an EV driver looking to upgrade your home charging, an organization that wants to offer charging to employees, or a community with a desire to provide public charging, our new incentives and rebates can cover up to 100% of the cost. We believe electricity is the transportation fuel of the future and that accelerating the electrification of transportation is vital to achieving carbon reduction goals and creating a more equitable clean energy future. Learn more: https://ms.spr.ly/6047meFD3

We are excited to announce that will be adding two clean energy projects in our state. One will be a new utility scale-solar farm at our existing Lower Snake River Wind facility. The other is a power purchase agreement we have made for a Battery Energy Storage System in Pierce County. Both projects will be able to generate up to 342 MW of energy to help our commitment to diversify our renewable resource mix and meet the state’s CETA targets. Learn more here: https://ms.spr.ly/6044me1ko

PSE works every day to ensure reliability and safety while delivering power to millions of Washingtonians. A new way we're doing this is through Gridscope, a device with real-time monitoring for the grid: https://ms.spr.ly/6048mnJBy These solar-powered devices remain online even during power outages, which will give PSE a greater level of confidence and awareness during live situations.

Thanks to our Green Power and Solar Choice participants, El Centro de la Raza in Federal Way has "rolled out" a new 14-kilowatt solar array. This will replace a portion of their electricity bill to keep the fun times going at a low cost while also putting more resources into serving their community. Your business can support projects like this by enrolling in renewable energy: https://ms.spr.ly/6041lCDDS

We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Douglas County PUD by signing a power purchase agreement to receive a slice of surplus hydropower from their Wells Hydroelectric Project. Under the seven-year agreement, we will receive 79 MW in 2026. The share of the Wells Hydroelectric Project will increase to 159 MW in 2032. This is enough energy to power over 70,000 homes in 2032 with clean, carbon free, and reliable hydropower. Read more here: https://ms.spr.ly/6044mDoMp

We are excited to share the PSE Foundation’s 2024 competitive community grant program has provided half a million dollars to 89 organizations within our service area: https://ms.spr.ly/6045l0B5X This year’s program focused on some of the most pressing needs within our region: food security, shelter support, and childcare assistance granted with flexibility, reflecting the Foundation’s commitment to increasing organizational capacity to meet these critical challenges.

We’ve partnered with the City of Issaquah to reduce reliance on non-renewable energy sources and create a more sustainable future for our community. Together, we're working towards a goal of 300 new Green Power participants, and we’re already 32% to our goal! Read more about our joint efforts to power a cleaner energy future for all: https://ms.spr.ly/6042lxrJp

Puget Sound Energy and its development partner Trammell Crow Company have officially broken ground on our new Operational Training Center, a cutting-edge facility designed to drive a culture of safety, while providing hands-on training for field workers, first responders, engineering, and project management staff to ensure the safe and reliable delivery of energy. We appreciate our project partners, the City of Puyallup, and the Puyallup community for their support and look forward to the training center opening in late summer 2025. #safety #energysafety #sustainbility

Craig Pospisil, Vice President of Business Development and M&A at PSE, delivered the keynote address at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of ElectricityEnergy Storage Program Annual Meeting. Craig spoke about the competing challenges of meeting aggressive clean energy goals, the impact of extreme weather events, significant load growth, and the need to keep costs affordable for customers. He emphasized the critical role of energy storage systems in our resource planning efforts and urged the research community to consider how they can develop timely and economic reliability solutions to enable the clean energy transition.