Avista gas customers in Southern and Eastern Oregon will see a small change in their billing rates starting September 1, 2025. Average single-family customers will see an increase of 2% ($1.36/month) while multi-family customers will see a small decrease of... Read More »

Today, we’re excited to announce the featured panel of CUB’s 15th Annual CUB Energy Policy Conference, 2021: Back to the Future! Bob Jenks, CUB’s Executive Director, will lead this thrilling panel and tackle some of the most pressing issues facing the energy sector... Read More »

Climate change is making Oregon’s summers hotter, drier, and longer. Sadly, our new reality in the Pacific Northwest is higher temperatures, frequent heat waves, and wildfire-driven bad air quality events. We need to do more to protect our communities from the... Read More »

We’ve built a stacked roster of panels for the 15th Annual CUB Energy Policy Conference! Our staff recruited insightful experts and community leaders to speak on some of the most pressing issues facing the energy sector. Today, we’re excited to announce our... Read More »

The 15th Annual CUB Energy Policy Conference is jam-packed this year! We’ve recruited insightful experts and community leaders to speak on some of the most pressing issues facing the energy sector. Today, we’re excited to announce our first afternoon breakout panel,... Read More »

About two weeks ago, I met with the head of the Consumer Services Department at the Oregon Public Utility Commission, also known as simply “the Commission” or the PUC. I reached out to them in order to better understand what path a customer... Read More »