Gearhart v. Public Utility Commission

At issue in this case is an order of the Public Utility Commission (PUC) that addressed Portland General Electric’s (PGE) recovery of its capital investment in the Trojan nuclear generating facility after that facility was retired from service. In that order, the PUC made three key decisions that are now before this court. First, to determine whether a legal error that the PUC had made in an earlier rate case had affected rates that the PUC had authorized PGE to charge, the PUC reexamined those earlier rates. Second, in undertaking that reexamination, the PUC determined that PGE had been…