Happy Holidays Members, We know it has been a while since we last were in touch but rest assured the organization has remained active and visible within the sectors that we engage with. Please read our Winter 2023 Update to catch up on the latest activity of the organization and how we are effectively advocating the […]
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Greetings SBUA Oregon Members! This newsletter informs you, SBUA Oregon members and supporters, on how SBUA in Oregon is advocating for Oregon’s small business community to ensure fair and reasonable electricity and natural gas rates and service. Click to read or download the SBUA Oregon Newsletter for Winter 2023 in English, 4-page PDF file. Click […]
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Greetings SBUA Oregon Members! This newsletter informs you, SBUA Oregon members, and supporters on how SBUA in Oregon is advocating for Oregon’s small business community to ensure fair and reasonable electricity and natural gas rates and service. In Oregon, we are going pedal to the metal on implementing the recent state law to remove carbon-based […]
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RATE CASES +++++++COVID-19 & RULEMAKING +++++++ENERGY TRUST+++++++SBUA OREGON ANNUAL MTG Remember that our state legislators passed huge energy bills in 2021 that will result in ratepayers paying in their power and natural gas bills the costs of decarbonizing Oregon’s energy supply. SBUA is advocating that these costs be vetted well and allocated FAIRLY and REASONABLY […]
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Greetings to SBUA members and supporters of small business Small Business Utility Advocates — SBUA — sends you this update re the Public Utility Commission proceedings re COVID-19 impacts on customers and utilities. Here is the link to the 7/13 Public Meeting including audio/visual link and public comment email address: Special Public Meeting UM 2114 […]
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Earlier this year, Diane Henkels presented a webinar on “Getting Oregon’s Small Businesses the Best Energy Future.” This webinar was designed specifically for small businesses to inform them of what they need to know most about Oregon’s energy landscape and how and where to most effectively support small business. For those of you who missed […]
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SBUA intervened in the Portland General Electric General Rate Case representing small business (e.g.,the Small Nonresidential Customer). This class of small business customers is by far the second most numerous customer class served by PGE, far larger than commercial, irrigators, and other customers. PGE proposed a 6% or so increase in retail electricity rates with small […]
Recall that PURPA (Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act), passed in the 1970’s, is a federal, and also a state law in Oregon that requires utilities to buy power that is produced from independent generators. A main purpose of PURPA is to encourage and promote development of renewable energy generation. PURPA dockets impact small businesses in at […]
In January 2013, SBUA filed as a party before the California Public Utilities Commission to intervene on Pacific Gas & Electric’s (PG&E) request for rate increases related to its Electric Distribution, Gas Distribution, and Electric Generation operations. SBUA is intervening to ensure that (1) rate increases do not disproportionately affect small businesses and (2) the […]
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