Last November, a Spanish Company, Abengoa, entered pre-bankruptcy talks with its creditors. At the time, PGE was well on its way to finishing construction of its new $514 million 440 MW natural gas plant in Boardman, Oregon, called the Carty... Read More »

One of the things I enjoy the most as a CUB staffer is getting out to conferences and hearing about how various stakeholders are thinking and working through the big issues in the energy industry. These events help me situate CUB’s... Read More »

As you know, CUB has the responsibility of intervening in integrated resource plan (IRP) proceedings on behalf of customers. In case you don’t remember, an IRP is a document that outlines how a utility intends to meet its resource needs in... Read More »

We have much to report on the telecommunications front. But two topics stand out: CUB’s participation with a City of Portland and Multnomah County partnership to develop a three-year Digital Equity Action Plan (DEAP), and our strong endorsement of key digital... Read More »

At the tail end of last year’s City of Portland budget development process, we reported on a major victory: the end of a developer subsidy to ensure developers were paying their fair share of sewer system development. This victory reduced the... Read More »

Towards the beginning of 2016—amid a flurry of legislative and regulatory efforts that culminated in the passage of the Oregon Clean Electricity & Coal Transition Act—we at CUB managed to find a new Regulatory Staff Attorney. After a long and thorough... Read More »