PacifiCorp serves roughly 2 million customers across six states in the U.S., with a service territory that extends from eastern Wyoming to the Pacific Coast in Oregon. As a result, the utility has a large, spread-out system, with a lot of transmission, that is very dependent on coal, said Fred Heutte, senior policy associate with the NW Energy Coalition.
The plan filed by the utility last week expects to nearly quadruple its current solar and wind resources in the next decade and add a lot of energy storage to its system. In terms of customer-side resources, PacifiCorp’s 2023 plan looks to deliver 798 MW of energy efficiency and 661 MW of demand response between 2023 and 2026.
