On Tuesday January 14, the CUB staff was pleased to welcome back our Law Clerk, Jack Watson. We got to know Jack over the summer of 2019 when he worked as our Summer Law Clerk and he proved to be... Read More »

Exclusion of coal-fired electricity from Oregon’s power system lies at the heart of the state’s transition toward a clean energy path. SB 1547 mandates that electricity provided to Oregon customers by Pacific Power (sometimes called PacifiCorp) and other utilities be coal-free by... Read More »

A decade ago, CUB was able to work with Portland General Electric (PGE), the Oregon Public Utility Commission (PUC), the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and other stakeholders to form an agreement to phase out the Boardman coal plant... Read More »

Editor’s note: The Oregon Public Utility Commission signed and approved this acquisition order on the morning of January 27, 2020.

As CUB reported in July 2019, Frontier Communications (Frontier) agreed in principle last summer to sell its Northwest (Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington)... Read More »

CUB applauds Pacific Power’s (aka PacifiCorp) decision to close the Cholla 4 coal plant in Arizona by the end of 2020. Pacific Power announced this decision on January 7. Cholla 4 is one of three coal units comprising the Cholla complex... Read More »

I have been a consumer advocate on energy issues since the 1990s. But I am still learning. Recently, I encountered something I hadn’t even known was possible: a partial power outage at my home.

One morning in December, I woke up and... Read More »