It has been over a month since I joined CUB to serve as the CUB Policy Center’s new Community Outreach Specialist on Electric Vehicles. It seems unreal that five weeks have gone by since I first walked through the doors of... Read More »

On Friday, October 21st, CUB Policy Center, with the support of the University of Oregon. and many others, hosted its inaugural policy conference: Smart Grid: Today’s Regulation and Tomorrow’s Technology.The university’s high efficiency White Stag Block in downtown Portland was jam... Read More »

We’ve all welcomed new gadgets into our homes over the years that have promised to make our lives better. Advances in web-based technology have brought automation and ease to household chores like paying the bills, and smart phones have exponentially expanded... Read More »

When a typical household consumes energy during the day, it is often an afterthought, done with little consideration of impacts of that use on the electrical grid. One household doesn’t really add that much load onto the grid. But when a... Read More »

By now you’ve probably seen one of the next-generation EVs plying the streets of Portland or cruising down I-5. As one of the American launch markets for Nissan’s new LEAF (Low-Emission, Alternative Fuel) sedan, Portland and the Willamette Valley have been... Read More »

As the next installment in our ongoing series on renewable energy, we examine the history of community energy projects and their role in the development of renewable power sources. To learn more about community energy projects, Paul Woodin gave CUB... Read More »