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CUB Leads Charge as Oregon Becomes a Net Neutrality Trail Blazer
CUB was the principal consumer advocate for HB 4155, ensuring net neutrality for Oregon Internet customers. After bipartisan votes in both the House and Senate, the Oregon Legislature sent the... Read More »

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 »

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 »