Beyond Policy: CUB’s 2025 Staff Picks
Posted on December 16, 2025 by Cassie Allen
Tags, General Interest
CUB staff worked hard to break down utility policy in blogs this year, making utilities more accessible to everyday people. Today, we’re excited to share our staff’s favorite blogs of 2025.
2025 Staff Picks
Regulators Grapple with PGE’s Lackluster Proposal to Address Data Centers
This year, CUB has been hard at work tackling a big source of rising energy costs for many Oregonians: data centers. We helped pass the POWER Act (HB 3546), a bill designed to hold data centers accountable for their own energy costs, but now the real work begins. This fall, Regulators are considering a new framework for how PGE divides up costs for all of its different customer groups — including the new data center customer category.
CUB Sues the Bonneville Power Administration
The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), one of our region’s largest clean energy suppliers, has decided to reduce ties with the Pacific Northwest. This summer, CUB joined four other advocates across the region, represented by EarthJustice, in a lawsuit to try to reverse BPA’s decision to splinter Western energy markets, costing utility customers billions of dollars.
CUB Won Big for Customers this Legislative Session
Oregon’s 2025 legislative session ended in June, and customers won big this year. Our staff stepped up to a busy legislative session by taking the lead on several major energy affordability bills, a first in our 41-year history. We’re proud to say that all of our priority bills, and many that we supported, passed this session!
CenturyLink’s Broken Promises: The Fight for Reliable Service
For years, CenturyLink has failed customers, especially seniors and rural communities, by not delivering on its promise to provide quality telephone service. Despite orders to fix their faulty service, chronic issues remain, such as dropped calls and service outages, poor customer service, and unreliable landline service. CenturyLink must be held accountable for its poor service.
CUB Wins Big for Avista Customers
This year, Avista requested a 7% increase in rates for household customers. CUB advocates helped cut the requested amount by nearly 50% overall, securing major savings for households. Now, an average single-family customer will see an increase of 2% ($1.36/month) while multi-family customers will see a small decrease of -1% (-$0.30/month).
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