ALERT: Proposed Federal Budget Eliminates Low Income Energy Assistance
Posted on March 16, 2017 by Bob Jenks
Tags, Energy
Like many of you, I am watching daily to see what kinds of changes are coming down from the Trump administration. So, when the White House budget was released on March 15, I took a look to see how energy... Read More »
Climate Change Legislation in Salem
Posted on March 10, 2017 by Janice Thompson
Tags, Energy
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 »
CUB Calls for Rejection of Avista 9.3% Rate Hike
Posted on March 2, 2017 by Bob Jenks
Tags, Energy
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 »
CUB Advocates for Transparent and Accessible Community Solar Program
Posted on February 22, 2017 by Liz Jones
Tags, Energy
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 »
Oregon Gets Long Overdue Severe Weather Shutoff Rules
Posted on February 10, 2017 by Samuel Pastrick
Tags, General Interest, Energy
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 »
Phasing Out 14 Coal Units Could Save $1 Billion
Posted on February 3, 2017 by Bob Jenks
Tags, Energy
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 »