The Austin Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan to 2035

The Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan to 2035 (2035 Plan) provides a flexible path to a clean energy future that incorporates our community’s core values of reliability, affordability, environmental sustainability and energy equity. This flexibility allows Austin Energy to meet new challenges in an ever-changing energy industry and make the most of innovative opportunities. The 2035 Plan is how Austin Energy will continue to serve as a resilient and community-focused public power provider.

Dive into the 2035 Plan here. 
Find the supporting Appendix here.

Community Collaboration and Values

To create the 2035 Plan, Austin Energy collaborated with a broad cross-section of local organizations and diverse voices through workshops, stakeholder meetings and a survey. We also partnered with energy experts to study dozens of approaches to meeting Austin’s future energy needs. These are the community’s key values that guided the 2035 Plan:

• Reliability — providing consistent and predictable electric service that will power our community as it continues to grow.
• Affordability — assessing the impacts and promoting fairness of costs for customers while continuing to provide the public-power benefits that enhance our community’s quality of life.
• Environmental Sustainability — maintaining flexibility in support of clean and innovative technologies and programs while taking a holistic assessment of the community and environmental impacts.
• Energy Equity — evaluating and expanding access to Austin Energy services so they can reach those who need them most while reducing any negative impact of our operations on the community.

Austin’s Clean Energy Future

With these values, the 2035 Plan guides Austin Energy and the community to a future that has:

• Continued progress and clear commitment to an industry-leading goal of 100% carbon-free energy by 2035.
• New and innovative customer energy solutions.
• Improved reliability, affordability and environmental sustainability.
• An energy equity approach that protects the most vulnerable customers.
• Resiliency in the face of extreme weather and associated financial risk.
• Flexibility and innovation to tackle current and future challenges.

You can see our previous work toward this direction below:

• Austin Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan to 2030 (Adopted in 2020)
• Austin Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan to 2027 (Adopted in 2017)
• Austin Energy Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan (Adopted in 2014)
• Amendment to Austin Energy Resource, Generation, and Climate Protection Plan to 2020 (Adopted in 2013)
• Austin Energy Resource, Generation, and Climate Protection Plan to 2020 (Adopted in 2010)
• Austin Climate Protection Plan (Adopted in 2007)