News Back in September, the Oregon Public Utility Commission ruled that Portland General Electric owed customers $33.1 million for overcharges on the Trojan nuclear plant. The decision came after years of legal wrangling between PGE, the state's largest utility, and the Utility Reform Project. The watchdog URP argued that PGE was improperly earning a profit on Trojan long after the utility shuttered ...   More

News We called the public information officer for the Oregon Public Utility Commission this morning to do a bit of reporting on Pacific Power's desire to increase our electricity rates by more than 14 percent. The PUC is the Oregon agency in charge of regulating utilities and so we called to speak to that agency's chief flack, Bob Valdez. We dialed his number and got a tape recording that said he ...   More