More Accomplishments
- 2010 - Pacific Power Rate Hike Cut By $42 Million
CUB gets a Pacific Power rate hike reduced by $42 million.
- 2010 - PGE Customers Saved From Meter Upgrade Charges
CUB protects PGE customers from being hit with unexpected repair bills when their meters are upgraded.
- 2010 - Boardman Coal Plant Closure Deal Reached
After three years of effort led by CUB, PGE agrees to phase out the Boardman coal plant rather than invest hundreds of millions of dollars in clean air technology. The PUC finds that this will save customers $200 million. This is the first case of a modern US coal plant being retired before its scheduled end of life due to greenhouse gas regulations. CUB works closely with PGE, environmental groups, the PUC, and Oregon DEQ to reach consensus on the closure date of 2020. CUB’s pioneering analysis using the EPA’s clean air standard becomes a model for coal plant closures across the country.
- 2010 - PacifiCorp Rate Hike Reduced By $46.3 Million
CUB fights PacifiCorp’s rate proposed rate hike and wins an agreement reducing it by $46.3 million.
- 2009 - CUB Wins Cap on PGE Decoupling Charge
CUB wins a cap on PGE’s ability to charge customers for its losses that are created by Oregon’s recession through a decoupling mechanism.
- 2009 - ETO Efficiency Funds Protected
CUB defends the Energy Efficiency programs of the Energy Trust from being raided by the legislature.
- 2009 - CUB Leads Battle Against Three New PacifiCorp Coal Plants
CUB leads the battle against the construction of three new coal plants for Pacific Power and wins. The utility agrees not to pursue the building of additional pulverized coal plants. In its subsequent proposal for long-term power purchases, Pacific Power states that it will not accept long-term purchases from new coal facilities.
- 2009 - Salmon Protected Through Klamath Dam Removal Agreement
CUB helps pass legislation to allow removal of dams on the Klamath River which will protect salmon recovery efforts.
- 2009 - Bill Passage Limits Building of New Coal Plants
CUB helps pass a bill that encourages clean energy by limiting the ability of Oregon utility companies to build new coal plants or enter into new long-term contracts with existing coal plants.
- 2009 - State-Wide Weatherization Program Created
CUB helps create a state-wide weatherization program to help customers improve energy efficiency of their homes by using on-bill financing to spread the cost over several years.
- 2009 - CUB Secures Customer Benefit from NW Natural Over-Earnings
CUB stops NW Natural from removing gas earnings from mechanism that shares over-earnings with customers.
- 2008 - Third Party Financing of Small Scale Renewables Protected
CUB protects the ability of small scale solar and wind systems to be developed by third-party financiers.
- 2008 - Qwest Settlement Secures Stable Rates, Funding for Customer Education
As an alternative to deregulation in Qwest’s merger with CenturyLink, CUB helps fashion an agreement between Qwest and the PUC that guarantees that basic local telephone service will remain regulated at current rates for several years. In addition, Qwest agrees to fund a center aimed at providing Oregon telecommunications customers with information about prices and services, along with a $45 million boost in broadband investment across the state. In 2011 CUB uses this funding to establish the CUB Connects project.
- 2008 - Gas Customers Saved From Paying Extra For High Fuel Costs
CUB stops a proposal from Oregon’s three natural gas utilities which would have required customers to pay more when gas costs are higher than forecast.
- 2008 - PGE Rate Increase Reduced By Over 60 Percent
CUB accuses PGE of not controlling its costs and reduces PGE’s rate increase by $67 million (the PUC allows an increase of $26 million, rather than the $93 million PGE requested.)
- 2007 - CUB Defeats Oregon Residential Phone Service Deregulation
CUB defeats the attempt of big telecommunications companies like Qwest to deregulate Oregon residential phone service in the Oregon Legislature, saving customers millions of dollars each year.
- 2007 - PacifiCorp Plants Denied Due to Carbon Regulation Risks
CUB wins PUC decision rejecting PacifiCorp’s proposal to build two new coal-fired power plants, citing risk of carbon regulation.
- 2007 - $4.6 Million in Public Purpose Funds Saved From Appropriation
CUB successfully helps ignite grassroots and allied opposition to the Oregon Legislature’s attempt to divert $4.6 million of ratepayer money, supposed to be going to support energy efficiency and renewables projects through the Energy Trust of Oregon, to OMSI.
- 2007 - CUB Wins Removal of Utilities’ Cap on Conservation Investment
CUB wins agreement to increase utility investment in energy efficiency (the cheapest resource) by removing the artificial cap of 3% of utility revenues going towards conservation programs.
- 2007 - Renewable Energy Standard Passes Into Law
CUB brings together consumer groups, utilities and environmental organization to create the Oregon Renewable Energy Standard, which requires utilities to get 25% of their power from new renewables by 2025.
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