Janée Zakoren, Community Outreach and Engagement Specialist at WA Department of Ecology gave this presentation at Forth and BEF's PNW Utility EV Roundtable on April 20, 2023.

1. Washington’s
Clean Fuel
Standard
Janée Zakoren
Climate Change Outreach & Engagement Specialist
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2. Why a Clean Fuel Standard?
Transportation is Washington’s greatest single
source of greenhouse gas emissions.
• Transportation also a major source of air
pollutants
• Washington will join California, Oregon and
British Columbia in having clean fuel standards.
standards.
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The Clean Fuel Standard will spur economic development, and
will increase availability and affordability of low carbon fuels.

3. What is a Clean Fuel Standard?
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Carbon
Intensity
Reduction
defic
it
Low carbon fuels
(e.g., biofuels,
electricity,
hydrogen) generate
credits
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20% reduction
below 2017
levels
by 2034
(4.3MMT CO2e/yr)
credi
t
High carbon fuels
(e.g., gas, diesel)
generate deficits
0.5% reduction
in 2023

4. Washington
Clean Fuel Standard
The CFS requires fuel suppliers to gradually
reduce the carbon intensity of transportation
fuels by 20% below 2017 over the next 15 years
Carbon intensity measures the amount of carbon
produced throughout a fuel’s lifecycle, or the
“wells to wheels” concept.
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Regulated & Opt-in Fuels
Regulated Fuels
(must participate)
Gasoline
Diesel or diesel fuel
Ethanol and blends 10 to 100%
Biomass-based diesel and blends
Fossil CNG, LNG, L-CNG
Propane/LPG
Hydrogen, compressed or
liquefied
Any other liquid or non-liquid
fuel
Opt-in Fuels
(may participate)
Alternative Jet Fuel
Bio-CNG, bio-LNG, or bio-L-CNG
Electricity
The CFS applies to
producers and suppliers

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How does the market work?
• Fuel suppliers register in the Washington Fuels Reporting
System
Register
• Track the fuel (e.g., kWh, gallons) used in transportation
Track energy usage
• Report quarterly & annually on fuel supplied
Submit reports
• ECY reviews data, issues credits or deficits based on the CI
& amount of energy used
Verify
• Bank or sell credits in open market
Generate credits or
deficits

7. How are credits
generated?
Credits for fueling a vehicle
Capacity Crediting
• Guaranteed return on investment for installing
expensive infrastructure:
o Electric vehicle fast charging
o Hydrogen refueling
Advance Crediting
• Public entities borrow against future credit
generation to fund electric vehicle/vessel
purchases
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8. What does this mean for
credit generators?
Potential uses of credit revenue
• Purchase alternative fuel
vehicles
• Invest in more low carbon fuel
production
• Reduce cost of low carbon fuels
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9. Electric utilities participation
Earn credits
Residential EV charging
Chargers owned by utility company
As the distributor of the electricity, you are eligible to
generate credits.
If they are dispensing the electricity going into the
vehicle, the can earn credit
Reporting Requirements
Quarterly – daily average electric vehicle electricity
usage
Annual – all participants provide reports 9

10. Equity Provisions
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Ecology & WSDOT to determine eligible project types.
Electric utilities
 must invest 30% of credit revenue in transportation
electrification projects in overburdened communities.
 encouraged to invest 50% of credit revenue in
expanding access to zero emissions transportation.
 must report their reinvestment activities to Ecology

11. Program fee
• Ecology charges a program participation
fee to cover the cost of program
administration.
• Credit generators cover 5% of annual
budget, deficit generators cover 95%.
Next steps:
• Deficit generators invoices in Q2,
• Credit generators invoices in Q3.
• Invoices paid within 30 days upon
receipt.
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2023 fee amount
Credit Generators Deficit Generators
$982 $50,649
2024 and beyond
Category 1
(highest
fee)
top 30% of deficit generators, 70% of fee amount.
Category 2
middle 30% of deficit generators, 20% of fee
amount.
Category 3
lower 30% of deficit generators, 10% of fee
amount.
Flat rate
The lowest 10% of deficit generators will only pay
the flat participation fee. All credit generators will
pay this flat rate fee.

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• January
• 10 - Q3 report
deadline
• February
• 1 - Proposed program
fee posted by Ecology
• 15 - Deadline for
Electric Utilities to
provide daily average EV
electricity use data for
quarter 4
• March
• 31 - Q4 reports due
• April
• 30 - Annual report deadline
(compliance deadline*)
• May
• 15 - Deadline for Electric
Utilities to provide daily
average EV electricity use
data for quarter 1
• 15 – Final program
participation fee posted by
Ecology
• June
• 30 – Q1 Reports due
• July
• August
• 15 - Deadline for
Electric Utilities to
provide daily average EV
electricity use data for
quarter 2
• September
• 30 - Q2 report deadline
• October
• 1 – Deadline for electric
utilities to notify of intent
to generate credits for
the next year
• November
• 15 - Deadline for Electric
Utilities to provide daily
average EV electricity use
data for quarter 3
• December
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Credits are generated as soon as quarterly reports are verified by Ecology
*2023 compliance obligations are deferred to 2024
Annual Reporting Program Deadlines

13. Thank you
Janée Zakoren
cfs@ecy.wa.gov
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