WASHINGTON STATE\u2019S
ENERGY OFFICE:
A Review and Options

!Senate Ways and Means Committee
!House Appropriations Committee
!Senate Energy, Telecommunications & Utilities

The Evergreen State College
Seminar 3162, MS: TA-00
Olympia, Washington 98505
(360) 866-6000, ext. 6380

Executive Summary.................................................................................................................... i Chapter I.Background.............................................................................................................. 1 Chapter II.Perspectives........................................................................................................... 3 Chapter III.Future Directions for Washington's Energy Functions........................................ 13 Chapter IV.Option One: Redefining a State Role................................................................. 15 Chapter V.Option Two: Emphasizing the Non-Profit Sector................................................ 21 Chapter VI.Option Three: Limiting a State Role................................................................... 27 Chapter VII.Statutory Changes and Time Schedules........................................................... 30

Appendix One:1995-97 Budget Proviso.............................................................................. I-1 Appendix Two:Linking State Energy Programs to Authorizing Statutes............................ II-1 Appendix Three:Linking Fiscal Resources to Energy Program Perspectives..................... III-1 Appendix Four:Linking Outcomes to State Energy Programs...........................................IV-1

This proviso also directed the Institute to: 1) explore the feasibility of using non-profit
organizations to provide energy-related services; 2) explore options for distributing these
services to other state entities; and 3) consider the time schedule and statutory changes
necessary for this distribution. The Legislature also directed that options should continue the
flow of oil overcharge restitution funds and federal energy conservation funds into Washington
State.

issues in state government and operated a broad range of programs and efforts to advance
and promote energy efficiency and conservation in Washington State. These many public
programs have been the consequences of both broad and specific policy directives from the
Washington Legislature since 1976. The fiscal resources to support almost all of these efforts,
however, have come from funding sources outside Washington\u2019s state general fund. The flow
of these resources was on a steady, increasing slope from 1980 to 1993. Since then, funding
instability, especially from federal sources, is a basis for looking at the future direction, and
proposing the future shape, of these state energy efficiency and conservation efforts.