Last night, PGE customers arrived at Jefferson High School in North Portland with signs and prepared speeches to express their opposition to PGE’s proposed rate increase.  Oregon Public Utility Commissioners Savage, Ackerman, and Bloom listened to the diverse group which included PSU... Read More »

On Februrary 15, 2013, PGE filed a request with the Public Utility Commission for a 9.3% rate increase for residential customers. PGE already has the highest rates of any utility in the state that serves more than 5,000 customers. CUB... Read More »

Last month, we were contacted by a customer of NW Natural. Every year for the past five years, she has called the utility to have her gas shut off during the warmer months, from March to October. For her this... Read More »

We blogged several times last year about CUB’s criticism of Pacific Power’s analysis (or lack thereof) of further investments in its coal fleet. In Pacific Power’s 2012 general rate case (UE 246), CUB argued that Pacific Power should have worked harder to... Read More »

Even after more than 20 years of watching utilities, I am sometimes surprised by the proposals they make. PGE recently asked to be made whole because their taxes were greater last year than had been forecast. What makes it so... Read More »

For the final installment of our Regulation 101 blog series, we’re finishing up our discussion about the types of dockets that CUB generally works on every year. In Part II of the Regulation 101 blog series, we talked about general rate... Read More »