A joint filing by four organizations urged the WUTC to restore meaningful public participation in PSE’s long-term resource planning. The letter details how PSE’s Resource Planning Advisory Group has become progressively more closed since 2015 and proposes eight specific improvements.
- PSE’s 2023 shift to a Resource Planning Advisory Group with strict professional qualifications excluded longtime volunteer participants and reduced public input to short comments at meeting close.
- Online-only meetings hide attendance, restrict chat access to RPAG members only, and provide no way for the public to contact RPAG members.
- The Feedback Report process gives the public 5 working days to comment while PSE has 15 to respond, and PSE’s responses are often terse or dismissive.
- PSE has stopped tagging meeting topics with the IAP2 participation level it once committed to.
- The coalition requests hybrid meetings, neutral selection of advisory members, transparent communications, equal comment windows, and meaningful RPAG agenda input.