CUB Energy Policy Conference

CUB is working on two main bills focused on energy efficiency this session. HB 2946 was a bill targeted at making sure that large energy users paid their fair share for energy efficiency investments. Currently, the amount that industrial customers... Read More »

Aeration tank at Columbia Boulevard Wastewater Treatment Plant, photo from BES website

City of Portland budget development is rolling along this spring. CUB gave testimony at a mid-March meeting focused just on budgets for the two utility bureaus. Next, CUB gave... Read More »

Late last fall, I sat in on a public meeting in Southern Oregon for one of the major utilities providing natural gas service to the area. They had just proposed a second rate increase in less than a year– one to... Read More »

CUB and Pacific Power sat down recently and reached an agreement on the costs associated with the utility’s proposal to close the Deer Creek Mine. Earlier, CUB filed testimony which supported the closure of the mine, but opposed the method that... Read More »

If you’re a current or aspiring homeowner, you’ve probably wondered about the possibility of installing rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) panels to generate electricity and save on your electric bills. But did you know that there’s an older and equally cost-effective technology that... Read More »

This article originally appeared on the MetroEast Community Media blog, and is reposted here with the author’s permission. Rob Brading is the CEO of MetroEast and a member of the CUB Board of Governors.

As you probably know by now — how could... Read More »