Portland General Electric (PGE) and the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) announced today (March 7) that they have signed an agreement for up to 200MW of capacity from the federal hydro system. Last year in PGE’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), CUB pushed... Read More »

Yesterday (March 1), the Oregon Senate passed House Bill 4155. Similar to the House vote earlier in the week, the bill received significant bipartisan support, including votes from all Democratic and four Republican Senators.

House Bill 4155, which was CUB’s priority bill... Read More »

The staff at CUB was sad to hear that former PUC chair Ray Baum passed away in February, after a long battle with cancer.

Baum, who served on the Oregon Public Utility Commission (PUC) from 2003-2010 and as chair in 2010,... Read More »

In January, CUB filed its final comments on Idaho Power’s 2017 Integrated Resource Plan. Idaho Power is an electricity utility based out of Boise, Idaho, with service territory in eastern Oregon. Integrated Resource Plans are future road-maps for utilities. In the... Read More »

In order for your lights to turn on when you flip a switch at the end of a long day, electricity needs to flow into your home at a moment’s notice. To respond to this need, and to the litany of... Read More »

The Portland Water Bureau (PWB), in consultation with CUB, has figured out an innovative approach to help low-income renters cover the cost of their City of Portland water and sewer bills. The major problem facing water and sewer utilities across... Read More »