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 »

In our last Regulation 101 blog, you may recall that we gave a general background on how cases work before the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC). This week, we’re going to start talking about some of the dockets that CUB works... Read More »

We blogged a lot last year about some of the big cases that CUB was working on—general rate cases for Idaho Power, Pacific Power, and NW Natural. In looking back, we realized that we never fully explained what a “general rate... Read More »