💼Professional Briefing - Thursday, June 4, 2026

• Washington CBPS Tier 1 - in effect since Monday, June 1. Tier 1 (220,000+ sq ft) is now operating under the $5,000 + $1.00/sq ft/year penalty exposure for missing documentation. Tier 2 EMP/O&M plan deadline is Wednesday, July 1 (27 days out) - that's the documentation deliverable for Tier 2 (90,000–220,000 sq ft). Full Tier 2 compliance not until June 2027, but the plan deliverable lands next month.
• Oregon ODOE Early Compliance Round 2 - applications due 5:00 PM PT Friday, July 10 (36 days out). $14M total round, with per-building incentives up to $0.85/sq ft for Tier 1 and $0.35/sq ft for Tier 2, per-building caps $10,000–$50,000 depending on building type. The second open office-hours webinar is Wednesday, June 24 at 1:00 PM PT (the first was yesterday, June 3). Earliest Oregon BPS compliance is still 2028 - this round is about banking incentive dollars for early action.
• Philadelphia Tier 1 - in effect since June 1. First compliance year for 220,000+ sq ft. Flag for any multi-market portfolios with East Coast exposure.
• Colorado annual benchmarking window - opens July 1, closes November 1. Reporting still required despite the 2026 interim performance waiver. Focus has shifted to 2030 targets.
• Idaho - Still on 2018 IECC with state amendments. No state BPS. State holds the line through at least the 2027 session.

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

Idaho Power PCA - in effect since June 1, Case IPC-E-26-10. $51.56M, 3.02% average increase; combined with the FCA the typical 900 kWh residential bill moved about $3.64 (3.15%). Per IPUC's press-release feed, the May 4 docketing of both IPC-E-26-06 and IPC-E-26-10 remains 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 later will be applied retroactively. Stacks on the 9.74% Idaho Power general rate increase in effect since January.

Avista 7.4% Idaho electric increase - in effect since May 1. $25.2M total revenue increase; residential 939 kWh bill moved $115.54 → $124.44 (+$8.90/month). 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.

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.

NEEA quarterly Board meeting - Helena, MT, June 23–24 (19 days out). Hybrid format; public attendance welcome. Market-transformation deck updates from Q2 typically land at this meeting. EFX26 wrapped in Boise earlier this spring with nearly 500 efficiency professionals attending; EFX27 stays on the calendar for May 18–19, 2027 in Wenatchee, WA.

Lex Portneuf data center - appeal window closed Tuesday, June 2. The 14-day clock from Hearing Examiner Kathleen Lewis's May 19 conditional-use-permit denial expired Tuesday. As of this morning, no public confirmation either way that Lex Developments filed. Gus Schultz had publicly committed to "be back in front of the people," so an appeal to Pocatello City Council on the existing record is the expected path. Watch local Pocatello reporting (Idaho State Journal, East Idaho News) for a city-council agenda placement in coming days. The binding finding remains §17.02.130.D.4 of the Pocatello Municipal Code - public-facilities-and-services inadequacy. 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 - BOCC 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. Board of County Commissioners 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. 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. PUC has frozen solar export credit rates through 2028. Next formal review window opens April 2028.

• ASHRAE Idaho Golf Tournament - TOMORROW, Friday, June 5, 8:00 AM MDT, Eagle Hills Golf Course, Eagle. Registration.
• ASHRAE Idaho June Chapter Meeting - Wednesday, June 10 (6 days out), 11:30 AM–1:00 PM, U of I Water Center (322 E Front St, Boise).
• ODOE Early Compliance Round 2 office hours - Wednesday, June 24 (20 days out), 1:00 PM PT.
• NEEA Board Meeting - June 23–24 (19 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.
• Washington CBPS Tier 2 EMP/O&M plan deadline - Wednesday, July 1.
• ODOE Early Compliance application deadline - Friday, July 10, 5:00 PM PT.