The Oregon Department of Energy has submitted three major deliverables required under Governor Kotek’s Executive Order 25-29: a report on Siting and Permitting Large-Scale Electricity Infrastructure, a report on Reducing Barriers to Clean Energy Deployment, and a Proposed Framework for Strategic Transmission Siting. Together, these reports and proposed framework address the issue of how to accelerate the pace at which clean energy projects and associated transmission infrastructure are permitted, built, and brought online in Oregon. These efforts will ultimately support access to the energy needed for Oregon homes and businesses to continue to grow and thrive.

The Oregon Department of Energy has selected 63 recipients to receive about $913,000 in Early Compliance Action and Planning Program incentives. The incentives will help building owners offset costs of early planning activities associated with Building Performance Standard compliance, such as energy benchmarking and reporting or conducting an energy audit.

In this episode of Grounded, we walk through the Public Purpose Charge Schools Program and what the funds look like when put to use – from lighting projects to heating and cooling systems, to insulation for a new roof.

Contractor enrollment opens Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, to prepare to launch two new federally funded home energy rebate programs.

The next regularly scheduled meeting of Oregon’s Energy Facility Siting Council will be held online on Friday, September 18, 2026.

The Oregon Climate Action Commission will hold a virtual meeting from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on September 11, 2026.

In this month's newsletter, ODOE gets ready to publish two Executive Order reports on clean energy facilities, prepares for Hanford waste shipments through Oregon starting in 2027, celebrates new natural and working lands carbon sequestration goals, recruits new Oregon Climate Action Commission members, publishes a new Grounded episode, and more.

On this episode of Getting Grounded, we’re walked through heat pump basics.

ODOE joined partners to learn more about shipments of transuranic waste from the Hanford Site in Richland, Washington, through Oregon.

The next regularly scheduled meeting of Oregon’s Energy Facility Siting Council will be held on Thursday and Friday, August 20-21, 2026.