Dan Johnson, Avista’s Director of Clean Energy Strategy, offers his thoughts about Avista’s longstanding commitment to providing clean, reliable and affordable energy for our customers and our vision of a clean energy future.
Lately, there has been a lot of news around renewable clean energy. Did you know that 60% of the electricity Avista generates comes from renewable sources? Our foundation of energy delivery has been our renewable hydro system since our company was formed in 1889 — 133 years ago!
We have had a longstanding commitment to environmental stewardship, sustainability and keeping energy affordable for our customers. Avista’s Clean Energy Plan builds on our history to deliver clean, safe, and reliable energy choices to our customers.
You may have heard about new legislation in Washington with the Clean Energy Transformation Act. This law sets more milestones to continue the clean energy journey and reduce carbon emissions. We have been doing this for quite some time with decades of innovation and adding clean energy sources like biomass, wind and solar.
Avista continues to reduce the emissions of the energy we deliver, whether it is electricity or natural gas. We have a plan to exit out of what remains of our coal-produced power, we are purchasing renewable natural gas for customers of our gas system and we are researching hydrogen as another renewable fuel. We believe we need to have a diversified energy grid to reliably serve our customers and give them the energy choices that matter to them.
Stay tuned for more news on how we are getter cleaner in providing energy for you.
