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Distributed Generation at PSE

Heather Mulligan, ManagerGreen Power Program

NWEC Annual Meeting, Boise IDMay 31, 2013

Overview

PSE Headquarters - Bellevue, Washington

Service Area - 6,000+ square miles in 11 Counties

Electric - Customers 1.05 million

Natural gas - Customers 725,000

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Local Energy Development

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Dairy Digesters Landfill Gas Waste Water Micro Hydro Small Wind Public & Community

Solar >20 kW

* Gas to Pipeline

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Green Power Program

Connecting Farmers to 35,000 Customers

Farm Power – Rexville, WA

Qualco Energy – Monroe, WA

Tails-A-Wagging – Bellingham, WA

AlpineX – Olympia, WA

Local Resources

PSE & Customers- supporting local Dairies VanderHaak Dairy –

Lynden Werkhoven Farm – Monroe Beaver Marsh Farms –

Skagit Harmony Dairy - Skagit MJD Farms – Lynden Ritter Dairy - Enumclaw Edaleen Dairy – Whatcom Van Dyk S. Holsteins -

Lynden

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Net Metering Growth

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2013

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17 32 43 83 176 269 448

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Looking Forward

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New Green Electricity Product

• Fixed 15-year price subscription for electricity component

• Partial hedge• Connection to specific local resource such as landfill project or anaerobic composter