Utility Reform Project v. Oregon Public Utility Commission

In another installment of a long-running dispute related to the closure of the Trojan nuclear power plant, petitioner seeks judicial review of an order of the Public Utility Commission (PUC) that granted respondent Portland General Electric’s (PGE) request to amortize in its rates certain costs of issuing a refund to ratepayers.

Petitioner challenges the PUC’s order on several grounds, asserting that the order is unlawful because (1) charging ratepayers for administering the refund violates ORS 757.355, (2) the PUC prevented petitioner from challenging the refund mechanism used by PGE, (3) the…