Last week was a busy week for CUB staff as we did all we normally do, like file briefs, analyze the economics of utility rate cases and IRPs, and communicate with consumers WHILE ALSO responding to literally dozens of reporters... Read More »

Update - 11:00am, 1/7/2016:
A two-page document has been made available summarizing the following information. Read it here.

Recently, leaders from around the world met in Paris to address the challenges of climate change. Meanwhile, back here in Oregon an equally important... Read More »

It is hard to believe, but it really is the end of 2015…that means we are halfway through the second decade of the 21st Century. I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that it was just yesterday when we... Read More »

In 2013, the Oregon legislature passed House Bill 2893, which tasked the Oregon Public Utility Commission (PUC) to investigate the resource value of solar. The resource value of solar is essentially the value that solar energy brings to the electric... Read More »

We’ve written about CUB’s work to re-balance the amounts that various customers groups are paying for energy efficiency. Currently, industrial customers contribute a lot less toward energy efficiency investments than residential customers do.

That’s a problem because it threatens to lead to a... Read More »

Avista is the natural gas company that serves customers in parts of Southern and Eastern Oregon, as well as Washington and Idaho. At a time when natural gas prices are at an all-time low, Avista is proposing to raise rates... Read More »