💼Professional Briefing - May 17, 2026

• Washington CBPS Tier 1 - June 1, 2026 (15 days out). Buildings 220,000+ sq ft must demonstrate compliance via the EUI target pathway or the investment-criteria pathway. EMP and O&M plans must be in place for any EUI-route submission. Tier 2 EMP/O&M plan deadline is July 1, 2026 (45 days out) - the documentation deliverable for Tier 2 (90,000–220,000 sq ft) sits 30 days behind Tier 1, even though full Tier 2 compliance isn't until June 2027. Confirm any client with a 90K+ sq ft building is staged for the July 1 plan, not waiting until next year.
• Oregon ODOE Early Compliance funding round - applications due 5:00 PM July 10 (54 days out). Friday's guidance webinar was the only formal walkthrough; if you missed it, ODOE typically posts the recording within the week. $1.2M total, ~$950K for Tier 1 (200K+ sq ft, compliance 2028) and ~$250K for Tier 2 (90K–200K sq ft, compliance 2029). Per-building incentives $10K–$50K for benchmarking, reporting, and energy audits. Note also that ODOE moved building-owner data to a new BPS compliance portal beginning May 1; if any client's portfolio looks incomplete in the new system, that's the migration, not an error.
• Colorado - June 1, 2026 annual benchmarking deadline (15 days out). The 2026 interim performance requirement was removed by HB25-1269; focus is on 2030 BPS targets. Reporting season runs July 1 – November 1 this year, and the 2026 noncompliance penalty has been waived. Benchmarking report still due.
• Philadelphia Tier 1 - June 1, 2026 (15 days out). First year of compliance for buildings 220,000+ sq ft. Flag for any multi-market portfolios.
• Idaho - Still on 2018 IECC with state amendments. No state BPS. House Business Committee killed the 2024 IECC adoption package in February; state holds the line through at least the 2027 session.

Penalty exposure across the nine jurisdictions with active BPS laws still runs $100/day at the entry-level end to $268/ton CO₂ (NYC LL97), with documented exposure up to $7.5M for the largest buildings under DC BEPS's 10,000+ sq ft threshold.

Idaho Power PCA - June 1 effective date (15 days out). Case IPC-E-26-10. $51.56M, 3.02% average increase. Residential 3.16%, small general 2.72%, large general 3.50%, large power 3.69%, irrigation 2.96%. IPUC has not yet issued a final order, but the June 1 effective date remains in the docket. Stacks on top of the 9.74% general rate increase that took effect January 2026 - cumulative 2026 pressure on Idaho Power commercial customers is well into double digits.

Avista 7.4% Idaho electric increase - in effect since May 1. Residential 939 kWh average bill moved from $115.54 to $124.44 (+$8.90/month). The two May 14–15 IPUC virtual workshops were the formal public-testimony windows; written comments still accepted via puc.idaho.gov.

Avista / Ford Hydro PPA - IPUC public-comment window closed May 11. Modified-procedure review (Order No. 37009). Reply comments around May 18 - i.e. tomorrow. If approved, the new three-year PPA runs July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2029.

Northern Lights Inc. Wildfire Mitigation Plan - IPUC accepting comments (Case C10-E-26-01, opened May 4). Northern Lights is the rural electric co-op covering Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai, and Pend Oreille counties - smaller footprint than Idaho Power or Avista, but the IPUC is applying the same wildfire-plan review structure to all regulated entities now. Worth flagging if any client has properties in north Idaho.

NEEA Efficiency Exchange - happened May 5–6 in Boise (Boise Centre). Lisa Grow (Idaho Power CEO) keynoted day one. If you didn't attend, NEEA typically posts session decks within 2–3 weeks at neea.org/efficiency-exchange-conference.

HB 911 (Electricity, New Large Loads) - fully in effect. IPUC approval is the regulatory gate for new electrical loads of 50 MW+ at a single service entrance. Service contracts must include a "no harm test" for existing customers, plus cost allocation, financial security, and dispute-resolution provisions. The active policy debate continues to focus on whether the structure is sufficient to keep residential and small commercial ratepayers from subsidizing hyperscale demand.

Ada County zoning rewrite - solar restrictions still in play. The county's first comprehensive zoning code overhaul since 2000 includes heightened restrictions on industrial-scale solar farms, with the amended language "strongly discouraging" (rather than prohibiting) solar on prime farmland. No Board of Commissioners final vote since the April hearing. Commissioner Davidson has publicly framed the current framework as failing to give applicants certainty - meaning the final language could still move in either direction. Idaho Conservation League and SEIA-aligned commenters are still organizing.

Idaho net-metering - Reminder: IPUC's September 2025 order cut Idaho Power residential solar export rates by 31%. Next formal review window opens April 2028. Use post-September 2025 rates for any 2026–2027 residential PV modeling.

Meta Kuna data center - Late 2026 opening still tracking. The contracted PV supply is the rPlus Energies 520 MWdc / 400 MWac Blacks Creek Energy Center, with commercial operation targeted 2027–2028. Live load before contracted supply is online means Idaho Power carries that bridge - relevant context whenever a client asks how the data-center buildout connects to the rate-case stack.

• ASHRAE Idaho Golf Lesson - May 29, 5:30–7:30 PM, Warm Springs Golf Course (Boise). Lead-in to the June tournament.
• ASHRAE Idaho Golf Tournament - June 5, 8:00 AM–2:00 PM, Eagle Hills Golf Course, Eagle.
• ASHRAE Annual Conference - June 27–July 1, JW Marriott Austin, TX. Eight technical tracks; this is the year's main HVAC&R gathering.
• ODOE Early Compliance application deadline - July 10, 5:00 PM Pacific. Not an event, but the next must-hit Oregon date.