Oregon’s first battery electric bus (BEB) is now officially on the road in the greater Portland area. I spent a little over two hours on a round trip in the bus in mid-April. The ride went smooth and, more importantly, clean!

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Earlier this month, I had the distinct pleasure of moderating a panel at the 2019 Green Business Initiative Symposium. Jointly presented by the University of Oregon School of Law’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center and the Green Business Initiative Student... Read More »

When the Oregon Legislature passed the Clean Electricity and Coal Transition Plan (SB 1547) in 2016, the state was taking a hard look at ways to decarbonize its electric mix beyond the two main tenets of the law: removing coal... Read More »

Another year, another power cost filing for Portland General Electric and Pacific Power. Every year, the electric utilities update their forecasts of variable power costs (purchased power, fuel, operation and maintenance, and demand). CUB intervenes in these annual power cases... Read More »

The 2019 Legislature is moving toward decisive actions to address climate change. Blog readers have already heard from CUB about HB 2020, the “Oregon CAP” bill, also known as “Clean Energy Jobs”. Now, the Legislature is deliberating on SB 928, which... Read More »

Avista, which provides natural gas service in parts of southern, central, and eastern Oregon, recently filed a general rate case. If Avista’s rate case is accepted as filed, the average residential bill would increase by 8 percent. In Oregon, Avista serves... Read More »