Oregon Department of Energy 2022 Biennial Energy Report - Policy Brief: Charting a Course for Oregon’s Energy Future

Sep 20, 2026

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Oregon Department of Energy’s 2022 Biennial Energy Report outlines the purpose of informing energy policy development, planning, and investment across local, state, regional, and federal levels while identifying opportunities to advance Oregon’s energy policies. It explains how the report collects and analyzes energy-resource data and frames energy as interconnected systems, infrastructure, and energy management. The policy brief highlights emerging trends, and discusses how aggressive clean energy and climate actions require an unprecedented transition driven by investments, energy efficiency, electrification, decarbonizing electricity, and developing low-carbon fuels, alongside key trade-offs for mid-century technology pathways.

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Policy Brief: Charting a Course for Oregon’s Energy Future

Part I: Introduction

Oregon’s Policy Landscape

Executive Order 20-04 and HB 2021

Decarbonization Pillars and Technology Pathway Trade-offs

Attachment 18 Oregon Department of Energy, 2022 Biennial Energy Report (2022) POL ICY BRIEFS The primary purpose of the Biennial Energy Report is to inform local, state, regional, and federal energy policy development, energy planning, and energy investments, and to identify opportunities to further the state’s energy policies. In service of ODOE’s role as the central repository within state government for the collection of data on energy resources, the report collects and analyzes critical data and information to provide a comprehensive and state-wide view of the energy sector. The term “energy” includes many intersecting systems that generate and distribute electricity to end-users, and that store and distribute fuels for home-heating, industrial processes, and transportation. It also includes the critical infrastructure, facilities, planning, and energy management that support these systems. A key consideration in analyzing the energy system is effects that it has on public health, the environment, the economy, and communities across the state – as well as the equitable distribution of benefits and burdens to Oregonians. This section of the report provides insights on select emerging energy trends, opportunities, and barriers in the energy sector. These policy briefs can be read as standalone documents, and there are cues in each discussion to point the reader to information and data found in other parts of this report or others that can provide additional background and insight. In addition to this Biennial Energy Report, ODOE published several studies over the last two years on other emerging topics – including zero emission vehicles, Regional Transmission Organizations, renewable hydrogen, floating offshore wind, and small-scale and communitybased renewable energy projects. [Learn more:](Learn more: www.oregon.gov/energy/Data-and-Reports/Pages/ODOE-Studies.aspx)[ www.oregon.gov/energy/Data-and-Reports/Pages/ODOE-Studies.aspx](Learn more: www.oregon.gov/energy/Data-and-Reports/Pages/ODOE-Studies.aspx) TABLE OF CONTENTS 377 502 512 526 543 Charting a Course for Oregon’s Energy Future 377 Part I: Introduction 393 Part II: Electric Sector 427 Part III: Natural Gas Sector 459 Part IV: Transportation Sector 482 Part V: Pathway Tradeoffs Oregon Clean Energy Opportunity Campaign Case Study Energy Efficiency Policy Opportunities in Existing Buildings Beyond Energy Savings – Co-Benefits of Energy Efficiency Local Energy Perspectives on Workforce and Supply Chain Policy Brief: Charting a Course for Oregon’s Energy Future Part I: Introduction States across the U. S. have adopted increasingly aggressive clean energy and climate change policies in recent years.1 Local governments – from Portland, Bend, and Ashland to other cities in Oregoni – are also adopting such policies, sometimes with even more aggressive timelinesand goals than those adopted by their respective states. In almost all cases, these policies are intended to achieve significant reductions in economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. While state policies vary in specifics, recent technical analyses find that achieving these targets will require an “unprecedented transition”2 and “substantial investments”3 to effect “a transformation of the energy system.”4 This transformation – sometimes referred to as deep decarbonization – has the potential to boost Oregon’s GDP in 2050 by as much as $4 billion, 5 driven primarily by indirect economic and health benefits, but also by taking the billions of dollars that Oregonians currently send out of state for fossil fuels and redirecting to in-state investments in clean energy. Many of the technical analyses align in their findings that this energy system transformation to meet policy objectives is achievable by focusing on four core pillars of decarbonization: Energy efficiency Electrification of end uses Decarbonizing the electric sector Developing low-carbon fu

FAQs

What is the main purpose of the Biennial Energy Report?

It is designed to inform energy policy development, planning, and investments across multiple government levels and to identify opportunities to further Oregon’s energy policies.

How does the report define “energy” for its analysis?

It treats energy as the intersecting systems that generate and distribute electricity, store and distribute fuels, and the infrastructure, facilities, planning, and energy management that support them.

What transition pillars does the policy brief identify as central to decarbonization?

It highlights four core pillars: energy efficiency, electrification of end uses, decarbonizing the electric sector, and developing low-carbon fuels.

Sep 20, 2026

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