PGE’s combined Clean Energy Plan and Integrated Resource Plan and (CEP/IRP) marks the next step in our decarbonization journey and lays out a comprehensive roadmap for how we will meet customer energy needs and greenhouse gas emissions targets while maintaining reliability, safety and affordability. It will take all of us working together to get there.
Learn more about our combined Clean Energy and Integrated Resource plan.
PGE's 2023 Clean Energy & Integrated Resource Plan
How are we planning to meet our 2030 emissions reduction target while maintaining reliability and affordability for customers? Learn about PGE's five steps.
What kinds of energy resources will Oregon need?
To achieve our 2030 emissions reduction target while maintaining reliability, PGE plans to add a significant amount of clean energy resources to our portfolio. Learn about the types of resources we're pursuing and their roles.
Accessing clean energy
Providing reliable power to customers while reducing emissions will require upgrading our transmission lines and adding new transmission infrastructure. Learn about how transmission solutions and regional markets play a role in our clean energy strategy.
Renewable energy, closer to home
Learn about the growing role of Community Based Renewable Energy (CBREs) in our clean energy strategy. These are small scale, customer owned renewable resources located within communities.
How can you join the clean energy journey?
Learn about some of the critical ways customers can contribute to our clean energy strategy, from renewable energy at home to participation in demand response programs.
PGE’s 2023 CEP/IRP represents a balanced path toward a reliable, equitable and decarbonized energy future. In this plan, we lay out the steps PGE will take to meet energy and capacity needs while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and maintaining system reliability and affordability for customers.
The 2023 CEP/IRP anticipates and plans for growing electricity demand as homes, businesses, and vehicles increasingly rely on clean power. The plan identifies a pathway toward meeting state GHG emissions targets through the addition of new non-emitting resources, customer-sited solutions, and regional partnerships that leverage the broader Western grid. These actions build on the progress we’ve already made to reduce emissions from electricity sold to Oregon retail customers by 25% since 2010–2012.
PGE’s 2023 CEP/IRP prioritizes flexibility, customer value, and collaboration. It emphasizes the vital role of distributed energy resources, demand response, and community-based renewables, while also acknowledging the ongoing importance of our existing generation during this transition.
We filed the plan with the Oregon Public Utility Commission in March 2023, followed by an extensive public review process. After receiving input from customers, advocacy groups, and other stakeholders, the plan received partial acknowledgement by the Commission in February 2024.
Studies and supporting documents
In 2021, Portland General Electric commissioned Evolved Energy Research to conduct an independent study exploring pathways to deep decarbonization for its service territory, called a Deep Decarb Study. This study was finished in 2022 and is an update to an earlier Deep Decarb Study that accompanied the 2019 IRP. The Deep Decarb Study explores potential pathways for economy-wide decarbonization across PGE's service territory given the enactment of House Bill 2021 and DEQ's Climate Protection Program emissions targets. The study does not replace existing tools or processes used by PGE to plan for resource and system needs in compliance with the law.
This analysis was completed prior to the passage of the Inflation Adjustment Act. To adjust for the impact of the IAA on PGE and our customers, an additional slide by PGE has been added to the study.
PGE relies on the Energy Trust to identify energy efficiency measures available in the IRP. Energy Trust is a nonprofit organization funded by Oregon and Southwest Washington utility customers. Using a resource assessment modeling tool they identify what energy efficiency measures are cost-effective for PGE. These cost-effective measures are built into the IRP load forecast and assumed to be acquired in most portfolios. Energy Trust also provide measures they deem to be non-cost effective to PGE. Non-cost-effective measures are screened for current cost-effectiveness a second time using IRP models.
PGE contracted with Creative Renewable Solutions to study the impact of climate change on PGE’s loads and resources. The study was requested by stakeholders and PUC Staff as part of the 2019 IRP acknowledgement process. It cumulates in a list of recommendations PGE can incorporate to better address climate change in long term planning. Based on the recommendations and discussions with the consultancy, PGE reduced the number of hydro and temperature years used in long term planning adequacy models to better align with the changing climate. The study also provided data, via the RMJOC, on how hydropower generation may change due to climate change. Using these data, PGE ran multiple sensitivities assessing how different future hydro conditions impact resource adequacy. PGE will take Creative Renewable Solutions recommendations into consideration for future planning work.
PGE worked with Blue Marble Analytics to study system flexibility needs. This study builds off the 2019 IRP flexibility study also conducted by Blue Marble. It uses a production-cost model, GridPath, to examine the PGE system under various commitment stages (day-ahead, hour-ahead, real time). It focuses on three items: flexibility adequacy, flexibility integration cost of new resources, and new resource (like batteries) flexibility value.
2019 IRP
We believe our 2019 IRP represents the very best path forward as we continue to move aggressively to cut greenhouse gas emissions from our system while maintaining a reliable and affordable supply of clean energy for our customers, now and in the future.
The plan includes measured steps we can take today to address climate change. It also provides maximum flexibility to make adjustments — with consultation from the OPUC and our stakeholders — as technology, policies and conditions related to the COVID-19 crisis continue to evolve.
Throughout the public 2019 IRP process, PGE worked to design a plan that reflects the values of our customers and community, responds to customer and stakeholder feedback, and embraces positive change taking place in the energy industry. We filed the plan with the OPUC on July 19, 2019. After extensive review and input from customer groups and other stakeholders, the commission acknowledged the plan on March 16, 2020. We invite you to read our 2019 IRP and let us know what you think about it.
PGE’s 2019 IRP Update  (acknowledged April 20, 2021)
2016 IRP
We filed the 2016 IRP November 15, 2016. The Oregon Public Utility Commission acknowledged our revised plan in August and December 2017.
We filed an update to our 2016 IRP on March 8, 2018. The Oregon Public Utility Commission acknowledged our 2016 IRP Update on May 1, 2018.
2009 IRP
2007 IRP
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