CUB Fights for Sound Financial Planning, Sustainable Utility Pensions
Posted on March 3, 2014 by Jaime McGovern
Tags, Consumers and Utility Customers, Utility Regulation
You may have heard in the past few years of companies, and even cities, going bust. You may also have heard about underfunded pensions. Or, you may have heard about claims of overly generous benefits for state workers. You may... Read More »
Commission Rejects NW Natural’s Environmental Remediation Stipulations
Posted on November 26, 2013 by Catriona McCracken
Tags, Utility Regulation
Our regular readers will remember that last year NW Natural filed for a General Rate Case (UG 221) which included the costs associated with NW Natural’s Portland Harbor Superfund clean-up. Decades ago, gas was manufactured from coal at a site along... Read More »
Idaho Power Tax Order Very Disappointing
Posted on November 13, 2013 by Catriona McCracken
Tags, Utility Regulation
On November 12, 2013, an Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC) Order arrived that CUB had long anticipated We read, with great disappointment, that the Commission had determined that Oregon customers of Idaho Power Company would not be receiving a... Read More »
CUB’s Comments on Idaho Power’s Integrated Resource Plan
Posted on November 7, 2013 by Nadine Hanhan
Tags, Utility Regulation
Last month, CUB submitted comments on Idaho Power’s Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). IRPs are 20-year planning documents that outline how a utility intends to meet its resource needs in a least-cost/least-risk manner. In the IRP, the utility compares the results of... Read More »
The BPA Residential Exchange Program Settlement Agreement Lives!
Posted on November 1, 2013 by Catriona McCracken
Tags, Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Public Involvement and Coalitions, Utility Regulation
CUB’s long term readers will know that CUB spent three of the last four years working with Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs), Consumer Owned Utilities (COUs), Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and others towards settlement of the vexing issue of how best to... Read More »
Commission Fires Shot Across PacifiCorp’s Bow
Posted on October 30, 2013 by Catriona McCracken
Tags, Climate and Conservation, Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Utility Regulation
Monday, October 28, 2013, may prove to be an important day at the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC)!
As our regular readers know, for the last two years CUB has been trying to get PacifiCorp (Pacific Power) to seriously analyze and... Read More »