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NW Energy Coalition Webinar Resource Adequacy in the Northwest May 7, 2020 1

About the NW Energy Coalition The NW Energy Coalition leads the Northwest's broadest alliance of energy interests in designing, promoting, and implementing clean, affordable, and equitable energy policy grounded in analytical expertise. nwenergy.org facebook.com/nwenergy twitter.com/nwenergy 2

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NW Energy Coalition Webinar Resource Adequacy in the Northwest May 7 th , 2020 Panelists: Ben Kujala NW Power and Conservation Council Elaine Hart Portland General Electric Therese Hampton Public Generating Pool Moderated by: Fred Heutte NW Energy Coalition

First speaker: Ben Kujala NW Power and Conservation Council 5

Regional Hydro Power Depends on Water Runoff 6

Check out the Power Supply Source Data 7

Integrated Solar affects both Hydro and Thermal Resources Change in Resource Dispatch 2500 Hydro Thermal 2000 1500 Megawatts 1000 500 0 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 -500 -1000 -1500 Hour of Day

Planned retirements based on agreements, announcements, IRPs; subject to change Updated Mar 2020 Idaho Power intends to end its participation in North Valmy 1 in 2019 Uncertainty remains over timing of Jim Bridger 1,2 potential accelerated retirements Hardin Generating Station was sold to an out-of-region cryptocurrency company; therefore no longer “counts” towards the region Colstrip 3,4 should be considered very tentative Data source: Council’s project database 9

WECC coal units in operation, decreasing over time WECC Coal Units in Operation - By State/Province 40,000 35,000 30,000 Nameplate Capacity (MW) 25,000 20,000 15,000 10,000 5,000 0 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 2032 2033 2034 2035 2036 … Coal Units in Operation AB AZ CA CO ID MT NM NV OR UT WA WY Overall, coal operating in the WECC falls from about ~34GW in 2019, to ~15GW in 2030 and ~13GW in 2032 (and thereafter) Data source: Council’s project database 10 and coal unit retirements database/map

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Next speaker: Elaine Hart Portland General Electric 12

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Next speaker: Therese Hampton Public Generating Pool 19

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Resource Adequacy in the Northwest Q&A Panelists: Ben Kujala NW Power and Conservation Council Elaine Hart Portland General Electric Therese Hampton Public Generating Pool Moderated by: Fred Heutte NW Energy Coalition

Thank you! Questions or Feedback? Email: kat@nwenergy.org We will post the recording on our website: www.nwenergy.org 27