The Lansing Board of Water & Light’s 2025 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) is a 20-year guide for meeting customers’ future electric needs and complying with Michigan’s clean energy legislation. The 2025 IRP will build on previous IRPs which have reduced carbon intensity by 60% since 2005 and BWL’s current Strategic Plan to achieve carbon neutrality by 2040.
The Lansing Board of Water & Light's 2020 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) is a long-term, 20-year plan that provides guidance on how best to meet its customers' future electric energy needs.
This 2020 IRP incorporates key components of the BWL's mission in the development of plan goals and metrics and is the latest planning initiative that has included the 2008 and 2016 IRP’s and the 2016 Strategic Plan, which have resulted in retirement of BWL coal units while adopting a diverse set of generating options. It also sets the stage for the next step in environmental stewardship by embracing the challenge of climate change with a recommendation to pursue carbon neutrality by 2040.
Presentations to the BWL Board of Commissioners (COW)
BWL IRP Powerpoint 2020 - June 30 COW
BWL Planning 2019 - May 14 COW
BWL Planning 2019 - July 16, 2019 COW
BWL Future Considerations to Strategize - September 9, 2019 COW
Clean Energy Journey - November 2019 COW
Stakeholder & Public Meetings
Public meetings and customer feedback was promoted on the BWL's social media pages and advertised with the local media. See more information from these meetings below.
IRP Commissioner Stakeholder PP
Social Media Post - Request for Feedback
Social Media Post - Public Event Invite
RELEASE - BWL to host Open Houses this week to collect input on region’s energy future
Public Open House - Boards Slides
GDS Report (Integrated Demand Side Management Report)
Feedback Station - Hardcopy Survey's