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| Regulation and Rates Disclosure | Regulation and Rates General Rate Case On February 27, 2026, PSE filed a GRC with the Washington Commission in Docket No. UE-260005 and Docket No. UG-260006. The filing included a three-year MYRP requesting an overall increase in electric and natural gas rates of 15.2% and 14.2%, respectively, in rate year one (expected to approximate calendar year 2027), 3.7% and 3.2%, respectively, in rate year two (expected to approximate calendar year 2028) and 8.7% and 3.6%, respectively, in rate year three (expected to approximate calendar year 2029). PSE requested a return on equity of 10.8% for all three rate years beginning in 2027 and requested an overall rate of return of 8.1% in rate year one and 8.2% in both rate years two and three. PSE filed a GRC which includes a two-year MYRP with the Washington Commission on February 15, 2024. On January 15, 2025, the Washington Commission issued an order on PSE's 2024 GRC, in Docket Nos. UE-240004 and UG-240005, that approved a weighted cost of capital of 7.52% in 2025 and 7.64% in 2026, a capital structure of 49.0% in common equity in 2025 and 50.0% in 2026, and a return on equity of 9.8% in 2025 and 9.9% in 2026. On January 28, 2025, the Washington Commission approved PSE's electric and natural gas rates in its compliance filing with an overall net revenue change for electric of $378.2 million or 13.3% in 2025 and $191.0 million or 5.9% in 2026 and an overall net revenue change for natural gas of $110.0 million or 10.6% in 2025 and $20.0 million or 1.8% in 2026, with an effective date of January 29, 2025. Liquefied Natural Gas Rate Adjustment On April 24, 2024, the Washington Commission issued Final Order 07 in Docket No. UG-230393, which determined that PSE acted prudently in developing and constructing the Tacoma LNG Facility and included two primary outcomes. First, the Washington Commission did not authorize recovery of the portion of the Company’s deferred return on its investment in the Tacoma LNG Facility that was recorded between February 1, 2022, the date the facility was placed into service, and January 11, 2023, the date PSE’s 2022 GRC rates went into effect. Second, the Washington Commission directed PSE to increase the allocation of distribution pipeline investment to Puget LNG. On May 24, 2024, Public Counsel and the Puyallup Tribe of Indians each filed a petition for judicial review of the Washington Commission’s Final Order 07. The petitions were filed in Thurston County Superior Court and were consolidated. The parties agreed to seek direct review of the case by the Washington State Court of Appeals. The case was transferred to Division III of the Court of Appeals in March 2025. Petitioners, Public Counsel and the Puyallup Tribe of Indians filed opening briefs on July 11, 2025. Respondents, PSE and the Washington Commission filed briefs on September 10, 2025. Petitioners’ reply briefs were filed on October 10, 2025. The case has been set for oral argument on September 1, 2026. Colstrip Adjustment Rider On September 30, 2024, PSE filed proposed revisions to rates under the Colstrip Adjustment Rider Schedule 141COL with the Washington Commission, seeking to recover actual and forecasted costs for Colstrip Units 3 and 4 for calendar year 2025. The proposed revisions would increase PSE's annual revenues by $4.1 million, or 0.1%. On December 19, 2024, the Washington Commission issued Order 01, requiring PSE to file revised tariff pages, with rates effective January 1, 2025, subject to refund pending final determination. The Washington Commission set the matter for adjudication, with a hearing held on September 3, 2025. On December 19, 2025, the Washington Commission concluded that an adjustment to the provisionally approved rate was necessary, decreasing annual revenues by $6.9 million or 0.2% effective January 1, 2026. On September 30, 2025, PSE filed proposed revisions to rates under the Colstrip Adjustment Rider Schedule 141COL with the Washington Commission in Docket No. UE-250733 for Colstrip Units 3 and 4 for calendar year 2026. The proposed revisions would decrease PSE's annual revenues by $82.5 million, or 2.3%, including the $6.9 million mentioned above, due to an expected decrease from the removal of Colstrip plant and reduction of operating costs. The revised tariff filed went into effect on January 1, 2026 by operation of law. Climate Commitment Act Deferral Electric On May 2, 2025, PSE filed a revision to its electric tariff in Docket No. UE-250321, which proposed the establishment of Schedule 111 for electric to allow PSE to recover the costs associated with its electric compliance obligation. PSE's proposal covered the recovery of its electric compliance costs incurred from January 2023 through December 2025 with a recovery period set for the period of August 1, 2025 through December 2026. On July 24, 2025, the Washington Commission approved the recovery of PSE's estimated 2023 and 2024 compliance costs and a pro-rata portion of the 2025 estimated compliance costs in Schedule 111 for electric. In Docket UE-250901, the Washington Commission approved the recovery of the remaining forecasted 2025 allowance obligation and a true-up to known compliance costs for 2023 and 2024, effective January 1, 2026. Order 01 within Docket No. UE-250321 also required PSE to file a proposal for recovery of 2026 CCA costs, which was made in that same docket on October 1, 2025. On December 24, 2025, the Washington Commission issued Order 01 in Docket No. UE-250747, which approved the total cost of electric CCA compliance will be recovered through PSE's power cost mechanism. Additionally, to the extent PSE uses no cost allowances granted by the WDOE, the benefit of this will be passed back to customers through the electric Schedule 111 as approved in Docket No. UE-250901. When combined with the adjustment to Schedule 111, noted above, for the recovery of compliance costs, the annual net rate decrease beginning January 1, 2026, is $259.0 million or 7.2%. As of June 30, 2026, PSE recorded a regulatory asset of $14.4 million, which represents the expense incurred for the purchase of allowances for the GHG emissions associated with the Company's electric business activities for 2023 through 2025, net of amounts to date collected in customer electric rates for CCA obligation costs. Further, PSE recorded a regulatory asset of $98.2 million, which represents the value of no cost allowances passed back to customers that exceeded PSE's actual usage of no cost allowances in 2026. Natural Gas The ongoing recovery of allowance costs and pass back of proceeds from the sale of consigned no-cost allowances associated with PSE's natural gas business activities is consistent with the approved accounting petitions in Docket Nos. UG-220975 and UG-230471. As of June 30, 2026, PSE recorded a regulatory liability of $15.2 million, which represents the amounts to date over-collected in customer natural gas rates for CCA obligation costs, net of the expense incurred for the purchase of allowances for GHG emissions associated with the Company's natural gas business activities. Additionally, PSE will continue to consign for auction at least the minimum amount of no-cost emission allowances allocated for natural gas business activities in compliance with the CCA, the proceeds of which will continue to be used for the benefit of natural gas customers, as determined by the Washington Commission. PSE does not record a regulatory liability to defer the proceeds until consigned allowances are sold at auction. As of June 30, 2026, PSE recorded a regulatory liability of $76.2 million, which represents the proceeds received from the sale of consigned allowances sold at auction net of proceeds from the sale of consigned natural gas GHG emission allowances passed back through customer rates or used on approved decarbonization projects. Power Cost Adjustment Mechanism PSE currently has a PCA mechanism that provides for the deferral of power costs that vary from the “power cost baseline” level of power costs. The “power cost baseline” levels are set, in part, based on normalized assumptions about weather and hydroelectric conditions. Excess power costs or savings are apportioned between PSE and its customers pursuant to the graduated scale set forth in the PCA mechanism and will trigger a surcharge or refund when the cumulative deferral trigger is reached. The following graduated scale used in the PCA mechanism resulted in the following Company and customer shares:
On April 30, 2026, PSE filed the 2025 PCA compliance report in Docket No. UE-260337. The actual 2025 PCA imbalance including interest was $155.6 million. In the 2024 PCA Compliance Docket No. UE-250318, PSE was allowed to collect on an estimated 2025 imbalance of $97.7 million, which was set in rates from October 1, 2025, to December 31, 2026. PSE has collected $42.0 million and forecasts to collect an additional $56.1 million from April 2026 through December 31, 2026. Accordingly, PSE requested to recover the revised remaining 2025 imbalance of $59.5 million over 12 months starting on January 1, 2027. PSE filed a tariff requesting an update to the PCA mechanism in 2026 within Docket No. UE-250747, which was filed concurrently with the proposed tariff revision for Schedule 111, in Docket No. UE-250901, discussed above. The former revision requested an increase of $748.4 million or 20.8% and incorporated updated market prices for natural gas and CCA emissions allowances, along with corrected forced outage rates for PSE's natural gas-fired generators. The Washington Commission approved PSE's tariff revisions filed, effective January 1, 2026, subject to condition that these tariff revisions will be subject to review and revision in PSE's next GRC and will not be effective until the conclusion of that case or February 28, 2027, whichever occurs first. On July 8, 2025, PSE filed a tariff revision in Docket No. UE-250537 requesting that the Washington Commission eliminate the deadband and sharing bands in the PCA mechanism. On February 23, 2026, the Washington Commission dismissed PSE's filing and determined that PSE's request would contradict the power cost review process of the two-year rate plan approved in 2025. On February 27, 2026, PSE integrated its request into its GRC filing in Docket No. UE-260005 for the three-year rate plan beginning in 2027. Purchased Gas Adjustment Mechanism On October 23, 2025, the Washington Commission approved PSE's request for PGA rates in Docket No. UG-250704, effective November 1, 2025. As part of that filing, PSE requested an annual overall revenue decrease of $55.1 million, where PGA rates, under Schedule 101, decrease annual revenue by $7.9 million and the tracker rates, under Schedule 106, decrease annual revenue by $47.2 million. The following table presents the PGA mechanism balances and activity at June 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025:
For further information, such as prior rate filings and accounting petitions, see Part II, Item 8, Note 4, "Regulation and Rates" in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025.
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