When we recently asked readers what they were wondering about, we got a lot of interesting questions that you’ll see showing up over the next several weeks. But one topic - the utilities’ voluntary renewable energy options - got mentioned a few times,... Read More »

In its original filing, the company asked for a residential rate increase of more 37%, including a huge increase in the company’s profit margin. CUB, the PUC staff and other parties were able to challenge millions in costs and reduce the... Read More »

In an order released today, the Public Utility Commission found that PGE was imprudent in its operation of the Boardman coal plant, and that PGE’s imprudence contributed to, but was not the sole cause of, the 2005 outage at the plant. The... Read More »

Last week, many customers of PGE received their Trojan refund checks - a refund associated with the Trojan nuclear power plant which closed more than a decade ago. This seems like a good time to revisit the question of nuclear... Read More »

In the last week of May, CUB won a couple of important victories that should save customers of PGE and NW Natural tens of millions of dollars. Both of these came in dockets that dealt with incentives for utilities and... Read More »

Executive Compensation and Corporate Bailouts have been in the national news recently, but they are also a local issue. Many folks may have seen Steve Duin’s column in the Oregonian concerning recent controversy over PGE’s Executive Compensation. What many readers may not be... Read More »