Energy: Washington bills, 2025 and 2026
Legislative staff filed 42 bills from the 2025-26 session under Energy. Each one is listed below with the description staff wrote for it, and bills with a page of their own are linked.
- HB 1018 · Energy facility site evaluation council, certification of fusion energy facilities
- HB 1188 · Energy facility site evaluation council, requiring county and tribal approval of recommendations
- HB 1210 · Clean energy transformation businesses, allowing extensions of property tax exemption
- HB 1237 · Energy facility site evaluation council, criteria for recommending certain facilities
- HB 1249 · Commercial liftoff for energy from advanced nuclear advisory commission, creating to recommend nuclear facilities
- HB 1328 · Clean energy development office, new chapter establishing to provide leadership and coordination
- HB 1461 · Joint operating agencies, modifying contracting authority
- HB 1481 · Commercial liftoff for energy from advanced nuclear study, requiring
- HB 1514 · Thermal energy networks, encouraging
- HB 1598 · Community solar projects, modifying
- HB 1679 · Advanced nuclear power, encouraging with alternative compliance option
- HB 1804 · Community solar projects, modifying
- HB 1847 · Distributed energy priorities, requiring many agencies/departments to identify opportunities
- HB 1960 · Renewable energy development local investment commitment matching grant program, establishing
- HB 1994 · Renewable energy facilities, new chapter taxing certain facilities via ballot measure
- HB 2090 · Nuclear power strategic framework, requiring
- HB 2103 · Local governments purchasing capability of projects as well as output
- HB 2285 · Natural gas operated with carbon capture and utilization, mineralization, or sequestration technology
- HB 2388 · Solar energy production as accessory use for agricultural land
- HB 2413 · Resource adequacy crises and clean energy transformation act exceptions
- HB 2496 · Tribal consultations by energy facility site evaluation council
- HB 2509 · Energy facility site evaluation council application process
- HB 2634 · Commercial nuclear reactors waste assessment
- HB 2741 · Electric transmission authority established in new chapter
- SB 5015 · Energy facility site evaluation council, replacing governor's approval with council decision
- SB 5216 · Light and power businesses, B & O and public utility tax credit for renewable energy project contributions
- SB 5241 · Energy facility site evaluation council, certification of fusion energy facilities
- SB 5246 · Energy facility site evaluation council, criteria for recommending certain facilities
- SB 5283 · Energy facility site evaluation council, forbidding preemption of local plans or zoning
- SB 5359 · Clean energy development office, new chapter establishing to provide leadership and coordination
- SB 5425 · Energy independence act, revising to avoid overlap with clean energy transformation act
- SB 5439 · Investment board, state, divestiture from thermal coal
- SB 5445 · Utility renewable use compliance, alternative investment in local energy resilience projects
- SB 5515 · Community solar projects, modifying
- SB 5634 · Community solar projects, modifying
- SB 5640 · Facility construction, requiring applicants to show adequate water supply
- SB 5804 · Federal injunction salmon habitat tax, establishing for light and power businesses
- SB 5821 · Nuclear power strategic framework, requiring
- SB 5991 · Natural gas operated with carbon capture and utilization, mineralization, or sequestration technology
- SB 6004 · Local governments purchasing capability of projects as well as output
- SB 6010 · Tribal consultations by energy facility site evaluation council
- SB 6355 · Electric transmission authority established in new chapter
All topics · All 2025-26 Washington State bills
Source: the Washington State Legislature’s Topical Index. OlympiaTrack is an independent bill-tracking service and is not affiliated with the Legislature.