PacifiCorp, the parent company of Oregon utility Pacific Power, is looking to raise customers’ rates by 4.4% over the next year. That sentence should sound familiar, as the company has raised its rates every single year since 2005, and there’s no... Read More »

Just a quick update to the post I wrote in January on the proposed energy export projects in Oregon. Companies behind the proposed 234-mile Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline, which would run from Malin, Oregon to Coos Bay, Oregon, filed a... Read More »

This year marks the Energy Trust of Oregon (ETO)’s ten year anniversary. Since opening its doors in 2002, the ETO has been helping utility rate payers throughout the state implement progressive energy efficiency measures and expand the use of renewable energy... Read More »

Theodore Chan and his wife, Wendy, are a typical Oregon family, with two children, aged 2 and 5. Theodore works for a tech firm on the outskirts of western Portland and Wendy is a homemaker. What isn’t so typical about the... Read More »

Last fall, I wrote about how I had signed up for an energy retrofit of my house through Clean Energy Works Oregon. Clean Energy Works is a non-profit that allows utility customers to do home energy efficiency upgrades and pay... Read More »

A couple of years ago, PGE was planning to invest $500 million in its Boardman coal plant. CUB challenged PGE to consider phasing the plant out instead of making the planned investments, and requested that PGE complete an analysis of... Read More »