Oregon Energy Strategy

November 2025

Gleb Tarassenko

The Oregon Energy Strategy recommends five pathways to guide Oregon: energy efficiency, clean electricity, electrification, low-carbon fuels, and resilience.

The Clean Energy Transition Institute and our partners were honored to be selected to provide technical assistance to the Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE) in developing the state’s Energy Strategy.
Key Oregon Policy Objectives:
Executive
Order
20-04
Economy-wide 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
HB
2021
Clean electricity targets for Portland General Electric, Pacific Power, and covered electricity service suppliers, including 80% emissions reductions by 2030, 90% by 2035, 100% by 2040
Climate
Protection
Program
90% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from natural gas, liquid fuels, and propane by 2050 ​

Oregon Energy Strategy and Supporting Materials

As directed by HB 3630​, the strategy identifies pathways to achieve the state’s energy and climate policy objectives, presenting policy recommendations that reflect significant input from Oregonians who participated in a robust engagement process. It also includes analysis of the benefits and challenges of pursuing different decarbonization strategies.

Technical Support

From April 2024 - November 2025 the CETI Team provided technical analysis to ODOE in support of a state Energy Strategy that outlines potential actions to meet the state’s energy policy objectives. The technical support included:
1.
Participating in a robust public engagement process to receive input on the technical modeling and policy recommendations, which included conversations with members of the Energy Strategy Advisory Group, Inter-Agency Steering Group, Working Groups, and the public.
2.
Performing energy pathways modeling and analysis to examine potential pathways to reach Oregon’s energy and climate objectives while maintaining reliability across the energy system.
3.
Developing complementary analysis to more deeply inform policy discussions: a household energy wallet analysis, air quality modeling, and geospatial mapping.
4.
Producing a study of employment effects to identify the scale of job growth that might be expected across the energy pathways scenarios. 
5.
Working with ODOE to review communication materials and support the launch of the final Oregon Energy Strategy in November 2025.
Technical Analysis Consultants

The Clean Energy Transition Institute led a team of the following consultants:

Clean Energy Transition Institute

Mariah Caballero, Research Fellow
Ruby Moore-Bloom,
Research Analyst
Eileen V. Quigley,
Executive Director

Evolved Energy Research

Jeremy Hargreaves, Principal
Ben Haley, Co-Founder
Jamil Farbes,
Principal


Sylvan Energy Analytics

Elaine Hart, Principal

Rockcress Consulting

Angela Long, Founder & CEO

BW Research Partnership

Jazmine Amoako, Research Analyst
Lori Baca, Research Manager
Sophia Chryssanthacopoulos,
Associate Research Manager
Phillip Jordan,
Vice President and Principal Researcher
Mitchell Schirch,
Research Director

Oregon Energy Strategy Resources

Newsletter
Celebrating the Oregon Energy Strategy

The Oregon Energy Strategy made its debut on November 10, 2025, 20 months after the CETI team began providing technical and economic analysis to support the Oregon Department of Energy.

Eileen V. Quigley
Eileen V. Quigley
11/20/2025
Publication
Oregon Energy Strategy

In November 2025, the Oregon Department of Energy released the Oregon Energy Strategy, which identifies pathways to achieve the state’s energy and climate policy objectives. The CETI Team produced the energy modeling as well as the energy wallet, employment study, and additional complementary analyses that underpin the strategy.

Ruby Moore-Bloom
Ruby Moore-Bloom
11/20/2025
Deep Dive
Oregon Energy Strategy: Complementary Analyses

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

Ruby Moore-Bloom
Ruby Moore-Bloom
9/11/2025
Deep Dive
Oregon Energy Strategy: Energy Pathways Analysis

Tracing the Draft Oregon Energy Strategy from start to finish.

Eileen V. Quigley
Eileen V. Quigley
9/11/2025
Deep Dive
Oregon Energy Strategy: Jobs Analysis

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

Ruby Moore-Bloom
Ruby Moore-Bloom
9/11/2025
Presentation
August 14, 2025: Draft Energy Strategy Recommendations and Jobs Modeling Public Webinar

The Oregon Department of Energy hosted a public webinar to share draft policy recommendations and jobs analysis results from the Oregon Energy Strategy.

Ruby Moore-Bloom
Ruby Moore-Bloom
8/14/2025
Presentation
April 16, 2025: Energy Wallet and Air Quality Results, Jobs Study Preview for Oregon Energy Strategy

The CETI team presented results from the Oregon Energy Strategy's Energy Wallet and Air Quality complementary analyses and gave an overview of the Jobs Analysis at a webinar that the Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE) hosted on April 16, 2025.

Ruby Moore-Bloom
Ruby Moore-Bloom
4/16/2025
Presentation
February 12, 2025: Oregon Energy Strategy Policy Working Group Plenary Meeting

Jeremy Hargreaves presented the energy pathways modeling technical report to the Oregon Energy Strategy policy working group.

Jeremy Hargreaves, PhD
Jeremy Hargreaves, PhD
2/12/2025
Presentation
January 31, 2025: Launch of Modeling Results, Oregon Energy Strategy

Jeremy Hargreaves presented the Oregon Energy Strategy energy pathways modeling results to the public at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland.

Jeremy Hargreaves, PhD
Jeremy Hargreaves, PhD
1/31/2025