Establishing a price on carbon has emerged as a priority for Governor Kate Brown and chairs of the Senate Environment and Natural Resources and House Energy and Environment Committees. Indeed, those committees are holding a series of joint meetings to... Read More »

On Wednesday March 1, 2017, CUB called for the Oregon Public Utility Commission (PUC) to reject Avista Utilities’ proposal to raise residential rates by 9.3%. CUB did this because we believe Avista, the supplier of natural gas service to parts of... Read More »

As most of our readers know, CUB and its allies succeeded in passing legislation last year that will allow PGE, Pacific Power, and Idaho Power’s customers to obtain solar power from “community solar projects”. Until now residential ratepayers had limited options for... Read More »

Last summer, after years of back and forth between key stakeholders – including energy utilities, Oregon Public Utility Commission’s (OPUC) Consumer Services Division, CUB, and others – OPUC Staff set into motion three “Low-Income Issue” dockets: AR 601 (Severe Weather Moratorium on... Read More »

It has taken CUB a few years to get PacifiCorp to seriously analyze phasing out coal plants instead of spending billions to retrofit their plants. However, Pacific Power (PAC) recently presented the results of its analysis of the least cost/least... Read More »

At today’s Public Meeting of the Public Utility Commission (PUC), CUB declared that the annual process to review PacifiCorp’s power costs is “fundamentally broken”. 

CUB noted that Pacific Power has been challenged on 29 issues related to its power cost... Read More »