💼Professional Briefing - Friday, May 29, 2026

• Washington CBPS Tier 1 - Monday, June 1 (3 days out). Buildings 220,000+ sq ft must demonstrate compliance via the EUI target pathway or the investment-criteria pathway, with benchmarking, Energy Management Plan, and O&M program documentation in place. Penalty structure: $5,000 for missing documentation plus $1.00/sq ft per year of continuing violation, accumulated daily for up to 18 months. Tier 2 EMP/O&M plan deadline is July 1 (33 days out) - that's the documentation deliverable for Tier 2 (90,000–220,000 sq ft) - even though Tier 2 full compliance isn't until June 2027. Last call to confirm any 90K+ sq ft client 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 (42 days out). $14M total: $2M state general fund plus $12M federal CERTA subrecipient money. Per-building incentives up to $0.85/sq ft for Tier 1 and $0.35/sq ft for Tier 2 compliance, with per-building caps of $10,000–$50,000 by building type. Earliest Oregon BPS compliance is still 2028 - this round is about banking incentive dollars for early action, not catching a deadline. Heads up: ODOE closed the legacy Property Inventory List on May 1 and is migrating building-owner data to the new compliance platform, so portal access patterns may have shifted.
• Colorado annual benchmarking - Monday, June 1 (3 days out). HB25-1269 removed the 2026 interim performance requirement and waived the 2026 noncompliance penalty; reporting season still runs July 1 – November 1. Benchmarking submission still required. Focus has shifted to 2030 targets.
• Philadelphia Tier 1 - Monday, June 1 (3 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.

Facilities Dive's 2026 BPS map still tracks 40+ cities with active BPS by end of 2026 plus the active state-level programs. Across the nine jurisdictions with hard BPS penalty structures, exposure runs $100/day at the entry end to $268/ton CO₂ (NYC LL97), with the largest documented exposure still in the multi-million-dollar range at the top of the building stock under DC BEPS.

Idaho Power PCA - June 1 effective date (3 days out), Case IPC-E-26-10. $51.56M, 3.02% average increase; combined with the FCA the typical 900 kWh residential bill moves about $3.64 (3.15%). IPUC's press-release list shows the May 4 docketing of both IPC-E-26-06 and IPC-E-26-10 - and as of this morning still no final order published in IPUC's May 2026 press releases. The May 4 docketing remains the most recent official IPUC action. Rates are scheduled to take effect Monday regardless; commission action will be retroactive if it lands after June 1. This stacks on the 9.74% Idaho Power general rate increase in effect since January - cumulative 2026 pressure on commercial customers remains well into double digits.

Avista 7.4% Idaho electric increase - in effect since May 1. $25.2M total revenue increase; residential 939 kWh bill moved from $115.54 to $124.44 (+$8.90/month). Driven by the energy-efficiency rider request Avista filed February 13. Separately, the August 2025 base-rate settlement layers in another 4.5% (~$14.7M) increase effective September 1, 2026 - the multi-year settlement is now visible on the 2026 trajectory. Public comment still accepted via puc.idaho.gov.

Northern Lights Inc. Wildfire Mitigation Plan - comments still open at IPUC (Case C10-E-26-01, opened May 4). Rural electric co-op covering Bonner, Boundary, Kootenai, Pend Oreille counties. Same wildfire-plan structure now applied to all regulated entities. Flag if a client has north-Idaho properties.

NEEA EFX27 dated. The Northwest's regional energy-efficiency conference is set for May 18–19, 2027 in Wenatchee, WA. NEEA's EFX26 recap from Boise (May 5–6) remains the freshest market-transformation read; the conference page is now showing EFX27 details for early calendaring.

Lex Portneuf data center - DENIED by Pocatello hearing examiner (May 19). Major reversal. Examiner Kathleen Lewis denied the conditional use permit for the $2.26B AI campus at the former Hoku site, overruling planning staff who had recommended approval. Lewis cited the seven-part test in §17.02.130.D of the Pocatello Municipal Code, with the binding finding under §17.02.130.D.4 - the application "does not adequately address that the project could be served by public facilities and services." She specifically called for impact analysis on power, water, wastewater, and air quality before any conditional use approval could stand. Lex Developments (Gus Schultz, Gilbert AZ) publicly vowed to return. The appeal window is 14 days from the recorded decision - which closes around Tuesday, June 2 for a written appeal to the Pocatello City Council. No additional public comment is accepted at the appeal stage; council decides on the record.

Bigger picture: the post-HB 911 large-load pipeline just got its first real "no" at the local-permit level. Idaho Power's service letter confirming a 100+ MW load increase was on file; the project still couldn't clear municipal code. That's a different failure mode than the HB 911 utility process and worth tracking for any large-load client - the municipal permit can become the binding constraint before the IPUC ever gets the file. Meta Kuna cleared its local permitting in 2024; this is the first contested denial in this cycle.

Ada County zoning rewrite - Board of County Commissioners is the next stop. P&Z recommended approval on May 22 of the comprehensive zoning rewrite, including the solar-farm amendment that "strongly discourages" rather than prohibits solar on prime farmland. BOCC date not yet on the public calendar. Continues to be the inflection for any Ada County prime-farmland solar site under control.

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 the "no harm test" for existing customers, plus cost allocation, financial security, and dispute-resolution provisions. HB 756 (introduced March 2026) would push the cost-allocation question further: any new customer needing 20 MW+ would fund its own infrastructure outright. Still in committee. The Pocatello denial shows the local-permit lever existing in parallel with these state-level statutes.

Idaho net-metering - Use post-September 2025 rates (the IPUC order cut Idaho Power residential solar export rates ~31%, or ~32% by Sierra Club's number) for any 2026–2027 residential PV modeling. Next formal review window opens April 2028. Avista and Rocky Mountain Power still credit at substantially more favorable bill-credit rates inside their Idaho footprints.

• ASHRAE Idaho Tech Conference - TODAY, Friday May 29, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM, Boise Centre on the Grove (850 W Front St, Boise). Full-day technical program.
• ASHRAE Idaho Golf Tournament - Friday, June 5 (7 days out), 8:00 AM–2:00 PM, Eagle Hills Golf Course, Eagle.
• ASHRAE Idaho June Chapter Meeting - Wednesday, June 10 (12 days out), 11:30 AM–1:00 PM, U of I Water Center (322 E Front St, Boise).
• ASHRAE Annual Conference - June 27–July 1, JW Marriott Austin, TX. Eight technical tracks; this year's program leans heavily into AI, decarbonization, and building-systems innovation.
• ODOE Early Compliance application deadline - July 10, 5:00 PM Pacific. Not an event, but the next must-hit Oregon date.
• Pocatello data center appeal window closes ~June 2 if Lex Developments files. Council-of-record proceeding - no additional public comment.