💼Professional Briefing - Thursday, June 25, 2026

Quiet stretch on new adoptions - no fresh state or city BPS announcements this cycle. What matters this week are two hard dates already on the calendar:

• Washington CBPS Tier 2 - EMP / O&M program operational by Wednesday, July 1 (6 days out). Tier 2 buildings need an Energy Management Plan and an Operations & Maintenance program up and running by that date. This is the documentation deliverable, not the EUI performance target (the full Tier 2 compliance filing isn't due until July 1, 2027). 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 (15 days out). Roughly $1.2M total (~$950K Tier 1, ~$250K Tier 2), per-building caps $10,000–$50,000 by type/size; eligible costs include benchmarking, reporting, and energy audits. Oregon's earliest BPS compliance is still 2028 - this is competitively awarded early-planning money.
• Idaho - no change. Still on the 2018 IECC with state amendments; no state BPS. The Building Code Board's review of the 2024 IECC for possible future incorporation continues, but nothing is adopted. (Recall the House Business Committee rejected a new code package in February.)
• Facilities Dive's running tracker still puts 40+ cities with active BPS programs alongside the state standards (WA, CO, OR, plus NYC LL97, etc.).

Idaho Power PCA (Case IPC-E-26-10) - still no final order. The IPUC press archive shows the May 4 filing notice but no commission decision as of this week; rates took effect on schedule June 1, and any later action applies retroactively. This stacks on the 9.74% general increase in effect since January.

Avista - large-load MOU (early-June reporting). Avista signed a nonbinding memorandum of understanding to serve an unnamed large-load customer in its Washington territory - 125 MW starting in 2029, with a path to 500 MW by 2032 (about 16% of Avista's current ~3,000 MW peak, or roughly half of all Spokane County usage). The structure is the one to note for the region's data-center debate: the large-load customer pays for all added infrastructure - generation, transmission upgrades, the works - and Avista says costs won't shift to existing ratepayers. The Washington UTC still has to approve. Widely assumed to be a data center; Avista won't confirm.

Avista–Ford Hydro PPA - still on the IPUC modified-procedure track; no final order in the June releases. The replacement PPA picks up where the expiring agreement ends: old term lapses June 30, new three-year term runs July 1, 2026 → June 30, 2029.

NEEA - Q2 program direction. NEEA's emerging-tech pipeline this quarter is leaning into Luminaire Level Lighting Controls (LLLC) integrated with HVAC controls (new field sites being selected, with load-flexibility evaluation) and a Power Index metric for variable-speed motors developed with The Motors Coalition. Heat-pump field work continues on tri-mode residential systems and dual-fuel water heaters. Upcoming: an Advanced Heat Pump Coalition webinar Tuesday, June 30 (5 days out). (The Q2 Board meeting in Helena wrapped this week.)

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

• Pocatello - Lex Developments' appeal of the denied ~$2.6B former-Hoku-site data center still sits with City Council on the existing record (no new public hearing in the reconsideration process). No new agenda placement reported since the last edition - watch Idaho State Journal / East Idaho News.
• Large-load cost allocation remains the live policy fight statewide. HB 911 (new 50 MW+ loads at a single service entrance need IPUC approval) is in effect; HB 895 limits large direct water withdrawals for data centers. The Avista MOU above is the same theme playing out on the Washington side - make the big new customer fund its own infrastructure.
• Net metering - keep using post-September-2025 Idaho Power residential export credits (cut ~31%, frozen through 2028) for any 2026–2027 residential PV modeling.

• ASHRAE Annual Conference - June 27–July 1 (opens Saturday, 2 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 (6 days out).
• NEEA Advanced Heat Pump Coalition webinar - Tuesday, June 30 (5 days out).
• Oregon ODOE Round 2 application deadline - Friday, July 10 (15 days out), 5:00 PM PT.
• ASHRAE Idaho chapter - still on summer hiatus; fall calendar typically resumes in September. Watch idahoashrae.starchapter.com.