The CETI team recaps the clean energy- and climate-related bills that Oregon legislators considered during the 2025 state legislative session.

In 2025, the Washington lawmakers took up many bills related to climate and the clean energy transition. CETI recaps key pieces of legislation that made it over the finish line and those that did not.

A recap of policies related to energy and climate that passed through Montana's legislature in 2025.

CETI gives an overview of the energy- and climate-related bills that moved through Idaho's legislative session in 2025.

On April 22, 2025, the Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) hosted a Decarbonization Forum during which a panel of experts explored the impact of data center energy use on the Northwest’s energy grid and clean energy transition.

In the past several years, geothermal has emerged as a clean, firm resource with the potential to be scalable and cost-effective.

We explore the mix of utilities—including investor-owned, public utility districts, municipal utilities, Tribal utilities, and cooperatives—that make up the Northwest’s electric utility landscape.

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting is a critical tool for governments, businesses, and climate advocates to understand progress toward emission reduction goals over time, but local, state, national, corporate, and global methods use varying types of accounting systems, which creates complexity.

As part of our Demystifying Decarbonization project, CETI’s 2024 Summer Intern, Richa Nevatia, created three infographics to explain what electricity is, how it is measured, how it gets from a generation facility to homes, businesses, or industrial facilities, and what it means for it to be behind-the-meter.

As utilities look to meet higher electricity demand driven by increased electrification and data center growth, a day-ahead market could be a key tool to maintaining low-cost, reliable power. In the Northwest, utilities are considering two different day-ahead markets. This blog dives into the two options that Northwest utilities are weighing.

With Northwest utilities considering changing how they buy and sell power, it is a great time to understand our current system and various electricity market options. This blog explores four different types of market organization relevant to the Northwest.

Research Analyst Jeanne Currie takes a deep dive into transmission – what it is, why it matters for the clean energy transition, and how a more effective, centralized process for transmission planning could help the Northwest achieve decarbonization.