PGE Seeks 4.8% Oregon Rate Hike to Fund Grid Upgrades and 600,000 New Meters
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Updated · Fox 12 Oregon · Aug 1
PGE Seeks 4.8% Oregon Rate Hike to Fund Grid Upgrades and 600,000 New Meters
3 articles · Updated · Fox 12 Oregon · Aug 1
Summary
July 1, 2027 is the target start date for PGE’s proposed Oregon rate increase, which would raise residential bills 3.9%—about $8.33 a month for a home using 780 kilowatt-hours.
PGE says the filing would pay for the West Side Upgrade Project, transmission rebuilds aimed at wildfire risk reduction, and replacement of 600,000 advanced customer meters.
The proposal lands after a string of increases for PGE’s roughly 963,000 customers: 8% in 2022, nearly 9% in 2023, and 18% in 2024.
Large data centers were already hit with an average 29% increase last month under Oregon’s POWER Act, and PGE now wants further hikes there so industrial growth does not push more costs onto households.
Oregon regulators will open a public review of the filing, while PGE is offering to cap annual base-rate increases in 2028 and 2029 at inflation.