CUB Energy Policy Conference

CUB’s executive director, Bob Jenks, emphasized the strong consumer protection elements of HB 2020 in two sessions on utility sector decarbonization at a recent conference in Portland. The event was hosted by the National Association of Utility Consumer Advocates (NASUCA), whose... Read More »

CUB bids a fond farewell this month to Database Assistant, Andrew Rod, as he’s accepted a well-deserved summer internship after completing his double major in Business and Economics at Portland State University.

CUB hired Andrew at the tail end of summer 2018... Read More »

On Monday June 17, the Oregon House passed HB 2020, the Clean Energy Jobs Act, which establishes the Oregon Climate Action Program. This program sets an economy-wide greenhouse gas (popular shorthand: carbon) emissions cap to meet the state’s climate goals. Additionally,... Read More »

The traditional ratemaking model, where a utility profits by selling electricity and earning a rate of return on capital investments, promotes consumption of energy as well as massive capital investments. While this approach was useful as the country was rapidly... Read More »

The Federal Communications Commission released its 2019 Broadband Deployment Report on May 29. For advocates, particularly those like CUB working to address digital inequality through new state and local policy, these annual reports induce a degree of eye rolling. They... Read More »

On May 21, I had the pleasure of attending Northwest Environmental Business Council’s annual “Oregon’s Energy Future Conference.” The day both started and ended on particularly high notes. Oriana Magnera, Climate and Energy Policy Coordinator at Verde, delivered the opening keynote on the... Read More »