CUB Adopts Climate Change Resolution
Posted on June 1, 2005 by oregoncub
Tags, Utility Regulation
CUB is proud to announce that our Board of Directors has adopted a Climate Change Resolution. As an organization that deals with the regulation of the production of electricity and other energy resources that have been linked to human-influenced climate... Read More »
Here we go again! MidAmerican Offers for PacifiCorp
Posted on May 27, 2005 by oregoncub
Tags, CUB in the News, Utility Regulation
More unexpected utility news hit the streets just this week. We had only begun to clear our offices of the mountains of data that went into Texas Pacific’s attempted purchase of PGE (which CUB helped to foil), when we heard that a... Read More »
CUB Supports Creating National Energy Consumer Advocate
Posted on May 20, 2005 by oregoncub
Tags, Utility Regulation
CUB is happy to announce that creation of a national Energy Consumer Advocate is being considered by the U.S. Senate. The following excerpt of Senator Wyden’s news release tells more:
A provision championed by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to create a... Read More »
PUHCA fate will influence future of PGE
Posted on April 20, 2005 by oregoncub
Tags, Utility Regulation
In “Power Window,” an article in today’s issue of Willamette Week, author Nigel Jaquiss points out that:
“PGE’s fate is being decided 3,000 miles away, in Congress. The U.S. House is considering an energy bill with a provision to repeal current utility restrictions, thus greatly... Read More »
What About Stock Distribution for PGE?
Posted on April 18, 2005 by oregoncub
Tags, Utility Regulation
In all the discussion of what will happen with PGE, one of the likely outcomes, stock distribution, has not yet been discussed here on the CUB site. If none of the purchase proposals currently on the table (City of Portland... Read More »
Mutual Utility Proposal
Posted on April 18, 2005 by oregoncub
Tags, Utility Regulation
A “hybrid” organization purchase proposal has been under construction by a group calling itself Oregon Mutual Development Company (Mutual Utility). The Mutual Utility would be a privately-run but customer-owned company, similar to a cooperative. Like the two public ownership models, the Mutual... Read More »