PGE Wants To Raise Rates
Posted on March 9, 2018 by Bob Jenks
Tags, Energy
PGE has filed a request to raise rates by $86 million. For residential customers, bills would increase by an average of 6.3 percent. The company claims the main driver of the case is new capital investments, including a new customer... Read More »
Why The PGE-BPA Power Purchase Contract Is A Big Deal
Posted on March 7, 2018 by Bob Jenks
Tags, Energy
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 »
CUB Helps Notch Win for Oregon Internet Customers
Posted on March 2, 2018 by Samuel Pastrick
Tags, Telecommunications
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 »
CUB Remembers Former PUC Chair Ray Baum
Posted on March 1, 2018 by Samuel Pastrick
Tags, General Interest
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 »
Idaho Power Agrees to Shut Down Two Coal Plants
Posted on February 27, 2018 by Will Gehrke
Tags, Energy
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 »
Energy Storage 101: Key to a Flexible Utility System
Posted on February 16, 2018 by Mike Goetz
Tags, Energy
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 »
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