This month, CETI demystifies siting and permitting pathways, shares new energy jobs visualizations, dives into Rapid Market Transformation, and much more.

Siting and permitting rules are designed to protect communities, ecosystems, cultural and natural resources, and public health, but dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s can cause delays and increase costs. Striking the right balance between responsible land use and rapid development of clean energy resources has emerged as one of the region’s most pressing issues.

Rapid Market Transformation identifies the technologies required to transition the building sector and implements strategies to ensure that building owners and tenants in Washington can access these technologies easily at cost-competitive price points.

This month, we celebrate two legislative wins in California alongside updates on the Oregon Energy Strategy, our building decarbonization work, and the Northwest Clean Energy Atlas.

In this piece, Ruby explores strategies to protect ratepayers from bearing the cost of the infrastructure and transmission investments needed to support data center growth in the Northwest and highlights a policy to that effect that passed in Oregon’s 2025 session

A coordinated approach focused on building performance in policy, programs, and tracking can support Washington’s energy, equity, and climate goals.

Eileen presents on the state of the clean energy transition at the E8 Annual Member Meeting.

An overview of the jobs study produced for the Oregon Energy Strategy technical analysis.

An overview of the three complementary analyses produced for the Oregon Energy Strategy technical analysis.

Tracing the Draft Oregon Energy Strategy from start to finish.

As the days shorten and the leaves begin to fall, CETI is working on our evolving theory of change and goals for the next year and beyond.

This Deep Dive explores key characteristics of green banks, explains the role they can play in clean energy financing, and introduces the recently established Washington State Green Bank.