💼Professional Briefing - Monday, June 1, 2026

• Washington CBPS Tier 1 - TODAY, Monday June 1. 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 (30 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.
• Colorado annual benchmarking - TODAY, Monday June 1. 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 - TODAY, Monday June 1. First year of compliance for buildings 220,000+ sq ft. Flag for any multi-market portfolios.
• Oregon ODOE Early Compliance funding round - applications due 5:00 PM July 10 (39 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.
• 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 - effective TODAY, 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 feed still shows the May 4 docketing of both IPC-E-26-06 and IPC-E-26-10 as the most recent official action - no final order has been posted as of this morning. Rates take effect on schedule; any commission action that lands after June 1 will be applied retroactively. 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 - that increment 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.

NEEA Board meeting - Helena, MT, June 23–24 (22 days out). Quarterly hybrid format. Market-transformation deck updates from Q2 typically land here. EFX27 still on the calendar for May 18–19, 2027 in Wenatchee, WA.

Lex Portneuf data center appeal window closes ~Tuesday, June 2. The 14-day clock from hearing examiner Kathleen Lewis's May 19 denial of the conditional use permit runs out tomorrow. If Lex Developments files, the matter goes to the Pocatello City Council on the existing record - no additional public comment. If they don't file, the denial stands and the $2.26B AI campus at the former Hoku site is dead at the local-permit level. The binding finding was under §17.02.130.D.4 of the Pocatello Municipal Code: the application "does not adequately address that the project could be served by public facilities and services." Worth watching: this remains the first contested local-permit denial of the post-HB 911 large-load cycle. The municipal permit became the binding constraint before IPUC ever opened the service-contract file.

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 point 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.

Idaho net-metering - Use post-September 2025 rates (the IPUC order cut Idaho Power residential solar export rates ~31%) for any 2026–2027 residential PV modeling. The PUC has now frozen solar export credit rates through 2028 to give customers stability after the rate reduction. 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 Golf Tournament - Friday, June 5 (4 days out), 8:00 AM–2:00 PM, Eagle Hills Golf Course, Eagle. Register.
• ASHRAE Idaho June Chapter Meeting - Wednesday, June 10 (9 days out), 11:30 AM–1:00 PM, U of I Water Center (322 E Front St, Boise).
• NEEA Board Meeting - June 23–24 (22 days out), Helena, MT. Hybrid; public attendance welcome.
• 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.
• Pocatello data center appeal window closes ~June 2. Council-of-record proceeding if Lex Developments files.