As the state moves toward a clean energy future, including 100 percent clean electricity by 2040 for the state’s largest utilities, Oregon’s energy landscape will need to evolve to ensure enough clean power is available when it’s needed. One emerging solution is to pair energy storage with clean energy facilities. When the facilities generate more energy than is needed, the extra energy can be stored to later dispatch to the grid when it’s needed.

2025 marks 50 years of Oregon Department of Energy public service. As we continue leading Oregon to a safe, equitable, clean, and sustainable future for the next 50 years (and beyond!), we’re taking time to reflect on what got us here. This month, we look back at the history of the Hanford Nuclear Site and Oregon’s engagement with the cleanup.

The Oregon Department of Energy officially reached 50 years this month — ODOE became an agency in July 1975 — and the team commemorated the milestone with a small celebration at the Salem office this week.

New podcast episode covers ODOE's Building Performance Standard and what Oregon is doing to incorporate the new program into Oregon's energy efficiency of its state-owned buildings.

The next regularly scheduled meeting of Oregon’s Energy Facility Siting Council will be held on Friday, July 18, 2025.

The Oregon Climate Action Commission will meet on July 11, 2025. The public meeting will be held from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. online.

In this month's newsletter, ODOE launches a new heat pump incentive program, announces a new round of Community Renewable Energy Grant funding (and celebrates the program with a new video), begins implementation of building performance standard efforts, and more.

The Oregon Department of Energy has launched Oregon’s new Building Performance Standard program, which will involve energy efficiency compliance deadlines for commercial buildings beginning in 2028. 

On this episode of Getting Grounded, our mini episodes on energy fundamentals series, we are joined by Joni Sliger, ODOE senior policy analyst. She discusses Oregon's history with nuclear power.  

2025 marks 50 years of Oregon Department of Energy public service. As we continue leading Oregon to a safe, equitable, clean, and sustainable future for the next 50 years (and beyond!), we’re taking time to look back and reflect on what got us here. This month, we review decades of federal funding support.