If you read the news you may have seen yesterday’s Oregonian article entitled, “Extra costs pit PGE, customers.” The language is adversarial and the two cases we currently are negotiating with PGE have been, too.

The first, the Boardman case, is PGE’s request for deferral... Read More »

In 1980, smallpox was pronounced eradicated, Reaganomics was born, Caddyshack and The Shining were in theaters, and the Northwest Power Act was passed by Congress. This Act provided some important, and indeed, historic, decisions about power in our Northwest Region,... Read More »

Wednesday CUB filed our Testimony in Portland General Electric’s current General Rate Case.

Rate cases typically take a great deal of time to dissect, digest, and write our arguments in response. This case was no different. Our basic testimony ran 50 pages, with... Read More »

We’ve talked to you lately in CUB Online about global warming and the need to purchase renewables, preserving equal access to the internet, and successful reform of utility tax rules. But this week we’re back to the basics, the bread and butter of... Read More »

The Public Utility Commission today released its Interim Order regarding implementation of the new utility tax law, SB 408. CUB Executive Director Bob Jenks had this to say about the ruling: “The PUC found a simple and elegant compromise to solve a... Read More »

In an important decision today, the Public Utility Commission upheld its earlier decision that SB 408, the utility tax reform law, does change the way that PacifiCorp is allowed to handle inclusion of taxes in customer rates. The law requires... Read More »