Earlier this year some HB 2020 opponents claimed that the Clean Energy Jobs bill created an unlevel playing field between electric utilities and Energy Service Suppliers, when the opposite is true.

First, though, what are Energy Service Suppliers (ESSs)? Customers with... Read More »

The ninth annual CUB Policy Conference, Clean Energy Communities / Reliable Systems, will take place on Friday November 8 at the Downtown Portland Hilton. Tickets are still available and we are now only two weeks away from the October 11... Read More »

CUB led the successful fight against Enron’s late-1990s attempt to deregulate Oregon’s electric system. The Legislature adopted our proposal to allow a limited amount of large industrial load to be purchased from the wholesale market (referred to as “direct access”), while... Read More »

We are less than two months away from the 2019 CUB Policy Conference, Clean Energy Communities / Reliable Systems, which will be held on Friday, November 8 at the Downtown Portland Hilton! Now in its ninth year, the CUB... Read More »

An egregious though little publicized legislative defeat during the 2019 session that ended in June was HB 2184, a CUB-supported bill championed by Representative Pam Marsh (D) that would have benefited rural communities directly by:

1. Solving a long-standing fairness issue with... Read More »

It’s no secret that anthropogenic accelerated climate change is heating up our planet and increasing the severity, frequency, and duration of disturbance regimes such as floods, storms, and wildfires. While any and all temperature and weather fluctuations can have an impact... Read More »