At the August 26, 2025 Public Meeting, the Oregon Public Utility Commission (the Oregon Commission) approved PacifiCorp’s 2025 Oregon situs Request for Proposals (RFP) with conditions in Docket No. UM 2383. The order approving the RFP was issued on August 29, 2025. At the August 28, 2025 Open Meeting, the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (the Washington Commission) approved PacifiCorp’s 2025 Washington situs RFP with conditions in Docket No. UE-250460. The order approving the RFP was issued on September 2, 2025. [Read more…]
Bonneville Power Administration Adopts New Power and Transmission Rates
September 1, 2025 By
On July 24, 2025, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) Administrator issued the Final Record of Decision (ROD) for BPA’s BP-26 rate proceeding, setting out new power and transmission rates for fiscal years (FY) 2026-2028. The new rates were developed collaboratively, with settlements reducing the initially proposed increases. [Read more…]
Public Power Advocates Voluntarily Dismiss BPA Appeal
August 21, 2025 By
On August 12, 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order granting requests by the Public Power Council (“PPC”), Northwest Requirements Utilities (“NRU”), and the Alliance of Western Energy Consumers (“AWEC”) to voluntarily dismiss their respective appeals of the Bonneville Power Administration’s (“BPA”) decision to enter into an agreement affecting the costs and operation of the Columbia River System hydroelectric dams. [Read more…]
Portland General Electric 2025 Request for Proposals
July 31, 2025 By
On July 24, 2025, the Oregon Public Utility Commission (Commission) issued an order conditionally acknowledging Portland General Electric’s (PGE) proposed 2025 All-Source Request for Proposals (RFP) for new generating resources. Acknowledgment is akin to a determination that the RFP is reasonable at the time of the Commission’s decision, and the acknowledgment decision will make it easier for PGE to recover costs of any resources ultimately procured from this RFP later in customer rates. [Read more…]
Washington Commission Approves Avista’s 2025 RFP
July 1, 2025 By
At the May 22, 2025 Open Meeting, the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (the Washington Commission) approved Avista’s 2025 Request for Proposals (RFP) with conditions in Docket No. UE-250155. The order approving the RFP was issued on May 23, 2025. [Read more…]
