Oregon RPS
OR: On June 6, 2007, Governor Ted Kulongoski signed Senate Bill 838, adopting a renewable electricity portfolio standard for the state. SB 838 requires the state’s largest utilities to meet 25 percent of their electric load with new renewable energy sources by 2025. Sources of energy that count toward the standard include wind, solar, wave, geothermal, biomass, new hydro or efficiency upgrades to existing hydro facilities.
HB 3039, signed in July 2009, establishes a solar photovoltaic standard within the state renewable portfolio standard. The solar photovoltaic standard is set at 20 megawatts by 2020 and applies to systems greater than 500 kilowatts and less than five megawatts in capacity. Each investor-owned utility will be required to meet their share of this statewide standard. Every kilowatt-hour of electricity generated from these solar photovoltaic systems may count as two kilowatt-hours for the purposes of complying with the state renewable portfolio standard.