Another year, another proposed rate increase for Pacific Power customers. Every year Pacific Power updates its forecast of variable power costs (including fuel, purchased power, and customer demand) in an annual power cost update filing. Here at the Oregon Citizens’ Utility... Read More »

As a consumer advocate organization, CUB’s first priority is to advocate for Oregon consumers served by investor-owned utilities to make sure that your pocketbooks and your values are being protected. As you know, over the past 33 years we have saved... Read More »

On Thursday, September 14, at a Public Utility Commission workshop concerning Pacific Power’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), CUB informed the Commission of our serious concerns about the risks of the investments compared to a relatively small benefit to customers and a... Read More »

Avista Utilities is one of the six investor-owned electric and natural gas utilities that CUB helps oversee and regulate before the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC). While the utility serves both electric and natural gas customers in eastern Washington and... Read More »

The Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC) spent most of the day on Tuesday, August 8, considering PGE’s latest resource plan. OPUC acknowledged new investments in energy efficiency and demand response which PGE had demonstrated were cost effective. With Boardman closing down... Read More »

Early on the morning of July 31, 2017, CUB joined 34 state Attorneys General, Consumer Advocates, Utility-Regulatory Commissioners, and Community Services Administrators in submitting a letter to key U.S. Senators representing the Senate Committee on Appropriations and its Subcommittee on... Read More »