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Energy Equity

A clean energy future for all

Hero Energy Equity

What is energy equity?

Energy Equity means ensuring that all PSE customers can access the benefits of our clean energy transition. This includes identifying inequities across our energy system, reducing barriers and burdens, and prioritizing the needs of Named Communities (including highly impacted communities and vulnerable populations) who have been historically overlooked.


Why energy equity is important

As PSE works toward the ambitious climate change goals enacted by our state’s Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA), we must ensure that all PSE customers, especially those who shoulder an outsized share of the climate burden, have a voice in the process and can share the clean energy benefits. Energy equity is at the center of our clean energy planning, operations, and practices and is guided by:

PSE’s strategic equity framework

Our vision is to be a strategic industry leader in energy equity. To align our efforts, we have created an Energy Equity Organization within PSE and developed a strategic framework that connects equity to our work and clean energy goals.

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PSE’s approach to energy equity

To guide our work, community engagement, and decision-making, we follow the four tenets of energy justice taken from the Energy Equity Project (EEP): Recognition, Procedural, Distributional, and Restorative. These nationally-recognized tenets inform the development of our Equity Guidance Tool – a series of questions that help us integrate equity practices into our work.

Recognition Justice

Requires an understanding of historic and ongoing inequalities and prescribes efforts that seek to reconcile these inequalities.

  • What we are doing
  • Questions we ask

Procedural Justice

Focuses on inclusive decision-making processes and seeks to ensure that proceedings are fair, equitable, and inclusive for participants, recognizing that marginalized and vulnerable populations have been excluded from decision-making process.

  • What we are doing
  • Questions we ask

Distributional Justice

Distribution of benefits and burdens across populations. Aims to ensure marginalized and vulnerable populations do not receive an inordinate share of the burdens or are denied access to benefits.

  • What we are doing
  • Questions we ask

Restorative Justice

Utilizes regulatory government organizations or other interventions to disrupt and address distributional, recognitional, or procedural injustices and to correct them through laws, rules, policies, orders, and practices.

  • What we are doing
  • Questions we ask

Our energy equity commitments

  • Engaging with communities