PGE Customers Concerned About Rate Increases at Public Hearing
Posted on June 4, 2014 by Jordan Bailey
Tags, Consumers and Utility Customers, Utility Regulation
On Thursday, May 29th, 2014, the Oregon Public Utility Commission held a Public Comment Hearing for PGE’s current rate case, docketed as UE 283, at Jefferson High School in Portland. As has been previously reported on the CUB blog, CUB has... Read More »
CUB Endorses EPA’s Proposed New Emissions Rules
Posted on June 3, 2014 by Bob Jenks
Tags, Climate and Conservation, Consumers and Utility Customers, Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Legislative & Political, Utility Regulation
Yesterday morning (June 2nd, 2014) in Washington DC, as a primary component of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the Environmental Protection Agency released new draft rules for regulating greenhouse gas emissions at existing power plants in the United States. Widely discussed and... Read More »
CUB Policy Center Presents Changing Climate: Adapting to New Regulations
Posted on May 28, 2014 by Amelia Lamb
Tags, Climate and Conservation, Emerging Technologies, Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Legislative & Political, Outreach and Events, Utility Regulation
CUB is pleased to announce that registration is now open for our fourth annual policy conference, Changing Climate: Adapting to New Regulations, taking place on Friday October 24th, 8:30am-5:30pm. We are thrilled to be partnering once again with the University... Read More »
Oregon Public Utility Commission Wants Your Comments at Portland Hearing!
Posted on May 20, 2014 by Nadine Hanhan
Tags, Consumers and Utility Customers, Utility Regulation
If you’ve been keeping up with the regulatory updates on CUB’s blog, you will remember the summary we wrote last month of various issues CUB identifies within PGE’s current rate case. In that article, CUB discussed the timing of the rate case filing,... Read More »
Measure 26-156 and EWEB: A Comparison
Posted on May 12, 2014 by Janice Thompson
Tags, Consumers and Utility Customers, Legislative & Political, Portland Water, Sewer and Wastewater, Public Involvement and Coalitions, Utility Regulation
If you’re registered to vote in Oregon, by now you’ve probably received your voter pamphlet for the May 20th election. If you live in Portland, you might have heard or read about Measure 26-156 that will be on the May 20... Read More »
CenturyLink Seeks Unlimited Authority in Setting Residential Phone Rates
Posted on April 17, 2014 by Sommer Moser
Tags, Consumers and Utility Customers, Telecommunications and CUB Connects, Utility Regulation
CenturyLink is asking the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC) to approve a price plan that would allow them to set prices, for basic residential telephone service, without any Commission imposed pricing parameters. If CenturyLink gets its way, it would have... Read More »