Wave Power in Oregon
Posted on May 3, 2011 by Yochanan Zakai
Tags, Climate and Conservation, Consumers and Utility Customers, Emerging Technologies
Here at the Citizens’ Utility Board we’re keeping an eye on emerging renewable energy technologies. In 2007, we supported the legislative effort to pass SB 838, a renewable portfolio standard that requires Oregon’s largest utilities to purchase at least 25% of... Read More »
Smart Grid Update
Posted on April 21, 2011 by Gordon Feighner
Tags, Emerging Technologies, Generation, Transmission, Distribution
Smart Grid technologies have been emerging around the world the past few years, and some new infrastructure has been rolled out by Oregon utilities. While the future isn’t exactly here today, the groundwork is being laid for substantial technological advances in... Read More »
Electric Vehicle Update
Posted on April 11, 2011 by Gordon Feighner
Tags, Emerging Technologies
Electric Vehicles in the News, and on the Road
Electric vehicles have been all over the news lately, and with good cause. The commercial rollout of the first next-generation electric vehicles (EVs, for short) has happened with a good amount of... Read More »
What has CUB Connects been up to?
Posted on February 25, 2011 by Andrea Crosby
Tags, Climate and Conservation, CUB in the News, Emerging Technologies, Legislative & Political, Telecommunications and CUB Connects
On January 25th, 2011 the CUBConnects project team presented to the Oregon Public Utility Commission (PUC) in Salem at the commission’s monthly public meeting. CUB’s Executive Director, Bob Jenks, opened the presentation with comments about the incredible number of telecom and... Read More »