💼Professional Briefing - Monday, June 22, 2026

• Washington CBPS Tier 2 - EMP / O&M plan operational by Wednesday, July 1 (9 days out). Tier 2 buildings need an Energy Management Plan and an Operations & Maintenance program up and running by that date. The full Tier 2 compliance filing isn't due until July 1, 2027 - what lands in 9 days is the documentation deliverable, not the EUI target. Tier 1 (220,000+ sq ft) has been in effect since June 1.
• Oregon ODOE Early Compliance Action & Planning - Round 2 applications due 5:00 PM PT Friday, July 10 (18 days out). Per ODOE's own posting, the round is roughly $1.2M total (~$950K for Tier 1, ~$250K for Tier 2), with per-building incentive caps of $10,000–$50,000 by building type and size. Eligible costs include benchmarking, reporting, and energy audits. Oregon's earliest BPS compliance is still 2028 - this is early-planning money, awarded competitively. (Note: this is a smaller pool than the figure circulating earlier; ODOE's blog is the authoritative number.)
• Idaho - still on the 2018 IECC with state amendments (the 2020-edition rules don't change that core). No state BPS. The state is reviewing the 2024 IECC for potential future incorporation by the Building Code Board, but nothing adopted.
• Facilities Dive's running 2026 map still tracks 40+ cities with active BPS programs alongside the state-level standards (WA, CO, OR, plus NYC LL97, etc.).

Idaho Power PCA (Case IPC-E-26-10) - rates took effect on schedule June 1; as of this week the IPUC press-release archive shows no final order posted yet. Any later commission action applies retroactively. This stacks on the 9.74% general increase in effect since January.

Avista - on its settled multi-year trajectory. The next visible step is the +4.5% (~$14.7M) base-rate increment effective September 1, 2026 from the 2025 all-party settlement. No new Idaho general rate case is open beyond the AVU-E-26-01 energy-efficiency program adjustment that took effect May 1.

Avista–Ford Hydro PPA - IPUC review continues on the modified-procedure track. The PPA replaces the agreement expiring June 30, 2026 with a new three-year term (July 1, 2026 → June 30, 2029).

NEEA Q2 Board Meeting - Helena, MT, June 23–24 (tomorrow). Hybrid; public attendance welcome. Q2 market-transformation deck updates typically land here. (NEEA also hosted Efficiency Exchange / EFX26 in Boise earlier this season.)

The data-center-and-load story is still the through-line for Idaho energy:

• Pocatello - Lex Developments' appeal (filed June 1) sits with City Council; no hearing date set as of mid-June. The reconsideration process does not include a new public hearing - the council decides on the existing record. BoiseDev pegs the former-Hoku-site project at roughly $2.6 billion. The Hearing Examiner denied the conditional-use permit under PMC 17.02.130(D) (failure to prove no detriment to public health/safety/welfare); the appeal argues a CUP shouldn't have been required at all and that the denial was "arbitrary and capricious." Watch Idaho State Journal / East Idaho News for the agenda placement.
• Meta's Kuna data center is under construction - ~960,000 sq ft, $800M–$1B, potentially up to ~200 MW. This is the load reality behind the rate pressure.
• Large-load cost allocation. HB 911 (new loads of 50 MW+ at a single service entrance need IPUC approval) is in effect; the policy fight is over making large customers fund their own infrastructure (any 20 MW+ customer already must enter a commission-reviewed service agreement). The 2026 session also moved on data-center water use (HB 895), limiting large direct withdrawals. Idaho Capital Sun has documented large loads pushing up rural/farm electric bills.
• Net metering - keep using post-September-2025 rates (Idaho Power residential solar export credits were cut ~31%, frozen through 2028) for any 2026–2027 residential PV modeling.

• NEEA Q2 Board Meeting - June 23–24 (tomorrow), Helena, MT. Hybrid.
• ASHRAE Annual Conference - June 27–July 1 (5 days out), JW Marriott Austin, TX. Program leans into AI in building management, decarbonization, and retrofit-for-resilience.
• Washington CBPS Tier 2 EMP/O&M deadline - Wednesday, July 1 (9 days out).
• Oregon ODOE Round 2 application deadline - Friday, July 10 (18 days out), 5:00 PM PT.
• ASHRAE Idaho chapter - no meetings currently scheduled (summer hiatus); the fall calendar typically resumes in September. Watch idahoashrae.starchapter.com.