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Proposed settlement with Northwest Natural Gas reached with UTC staff By Rita R. Robison on July 27, 2021 at 4:44 PM
The staff of the Washington State Utilities and Transportation Commission announced a multi-party agreement Tuesday to settle a request from Northwest Natural Gas to increase natural gas rates in Washington.
The three-member commission, which isn’t bound by the agreement, will make a final decision on the utility’s revenue-increase request this fall.
A virtual public hearing is scheduled Aug. 19 for customers to comment on the agreements.
The multi-year settlement calls for new rates to begin this year on Nov. 1, then increase again on Nov. 1, 2022.
Oregon Senate vote sends legislation to Gov. Brown; fund guarantees advocacy in ratemaking proceedings.
The Oregon Public Utility Commission will be empowered to approve discounted utility rates for low-income customers under a bill that is headed to Gov. Kate Brown.
House Bill 2475, which the Senate approved without amendment on an 18-11 vote Thursday, May 13, also allows access to a fund by advocates of low-income households or communities disproportionately affected by environmental pollution that participate in PUC proceedings. The fund is capped at $500,000 annually.
A coalition known as Oregon Clean Energy Opportunity supports the bill to help energy-burdened consumers, defined as low-income households that pay 6% or more of their monthly income on electric and gas service.
Biden Administration Accelerates State Climate Solutions
May 5, 2021
Environmental disasters and new federal policy spike demand for renewable energy.
When Gov. Kate Brown issued Executive Order 20-04 in March 2020, directing state agencies to create new rules limiting companies’ carbon emissions, she was on the wrong side of the national moment.
One year after taking office in 2017, the Trump administration pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, the legally binding international treaty on climate change, and issued a flurry of executive orders rolling back Obama and Clinton-era environmental regulations 74 in total. For every regulation that was put into place, two were eliminated.
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