Your Dollars at Work
Electricity prices may change, but our commitment to delivering safe, reliable power at the lowest price possible to our customers won't. Check out some of the investments we're making to build a brighter future for our community and fulfill our Customer Affordability Commitment.
We continually grow and adjust to meet our community's needs
Delivering safe, reliable and increasingly clean energy includes many factors like system maintenance and improvements, higher energy costs, federal energy tariffs, even costs associated with crews and equimpent needed to make these improvements. We’re leading the way to bring affordable energy to all while accessing any available grants, awards and other funding to manage costs.
The Customer Affordability Commitment
Keeping energy safe, reliable and affordable is always our priority. With rising costs across the board, we launched our Customer Affordability Commitment — a multi-year effort to cut costs while building a stronger, more resilient grid.   With nearly 500 MW of new battery storage and support for fair state legislation, we’re investing in reliability and working to keep prices as low as possible. 
System maintenance and improvements
Just like you maintain your car to ensure peak performance, we take the same care with our electrical equipment. We maintain and upgrade generation facilities, substations and transmission and distribution equipment so we can deliver reliable power with fewer outages.
Learn more about PGE projects.
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Battery storage systems to provide backup power
Our large-scale battery projects in Constable, Seaside, Sundial and Coffee Creek store extra energy when demand is low. We use this stored energy during periods of high demand. They can provide clean, low-cost power for up to four hours to about 425,000 homes. 

Commitments honored:
✅ ReliabilityÂ
Putting power lines underground for safety and resilience Â
The Scoggins-Cherry Grove Underground Conversion project adds to the nearly 17,000 miles of power lines we have already buried—over 60% of our distribution lines. This project helps prevent wildfires and reduces the chance of outages.

Commitments honored:
✅ Safety ✅ Reliability Â
Upgrades to transmission towers maximize existing equipment
Crews working on the Westside Upgrade Project removed the top of several transmission towers and added extensions to raise their height. This supports grid-enhancing technology to ease a major grid bottleneck and nearly double the power these lines carry.
Commitments honored:
✅ Affordability ✅ Reliability
Powering progress and advancing safety
We're continuously developing smarter ways to deliver energy that’s affordable, efficient and clean. We’re focused on real, scalable impact to support a grid that works for the decades to come.
Learn more about innovation at PGE.
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Using smart technology to reduce outages and prevent equipment damage
We are using an Early Fault Detection network to find and fix equipment problems before they cause outages.  We have installed nearly 400 smart devices to prevent equipment damage and speed up restoration during outages.  Our rapid fault location and service restoration program reduces outage time from hours to minutes. 

Commitment honored:
✅ Reliability
High-tech weather stations provide real-time data predicting severe weather
Our network of over 80 weather stations provides weather data at a granular level to better predict dramatic weather year-round. This real-time data delivers deeper understanding and forecasting about how weather could impact our system as well as broader weather awareness across our area and fire weather forecasts.
Commitments honored:
✅ Safety
Wind farms make energy more dependable and affordable
The Clearwater Wind Energy Center is contributing to record-high wind generation for customers. In its first ten months serving PGE customers, Clearwater produced enough electricity to power half the number of homes in Oregon. This giant wind farm turns steady winds on the plains of Montana into reliable power here at home.
Commitments honored:
✅ Affordability ✅ ReliabilityÂ
Learn about PGE's recent rate filings
As our community's needs change, we continually adjust to meet new challenges. As a regulated utility, PGE must file a formal rate case with the Oregon Public Utility Commission before any price changes can occur. The OPUC approves rate changes only if they are fair and reasonable.
2026 Power Costs
On July 15, 2025, PGE filed an updated forecast for power costs in 2026. We expect an increase mainly due to the Bonneville Power Administration's new transmission rates, federal energy tariffs on Canadian natural gas and rising energy demand in our area. If approved, this change will raise power costs by about 1.1%, and customers will see this on their bills starting in April 2026*. The table below shows the impact on different customer groups.Â
Average increase by customer group:
Residential: 1.1%
Commercial: 1.2%
Industrial: 1.5%
Overall: 1.1%
* April 2026 for residential customers; January 2026 for commercial and industrial customersÂ
2024 and 2025 Wildfire Prevention Cost Recovery
PGE filed cost recovery for 2024 and 2025 wildfire prevention expenses. These costs support funding local vegetation management crews, equipment and system hardening projects in Oregon communities to reduce wildfire risks. If approved, residential customers could see an average 0.9% increase to monthly bills starting June 1, 2026.
Average increase by customer group:
Residential: 0.9%
Commercial: 0.7%
Industrial: 0.4%
Overall: 0.7%
2024 January Ice Storm and Power Cost RecoveryÂ
In July, PGE filed a request to recover costs from the January 2024 ice storm and the emergency power purchased during last year's peak demand. If the Commission approves this request, customers will see an overall rate increase of about 2.5%. To lessen the immediate impact on bills, we propose a plan that spreads these costs over several years. This will keep the increase on customer bills to less than 1% each year.Â
2024 Distribution System Plan
On July 25, PGE filed to recover costs for capital projects in its 2024 Distribution System Plan. These projects will be completed by March 31, 2026. They include building the new Memorial Substation in Wilsonville, adding new feeders and modernizing the grid to improve reliability. By upgrading the physical infrastructure and using new technology, we aim to make the grid more resilient against severe storms and to restore power more quickly during outages. If approved, this request would result in about a 1.7% increase in rates, effective April 1, 2026.Â
Average increase by customer group:
Residential: 2.0%
Commercial: 1.6%
Industrial: 1.0%
Overall: 1.7%
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Be part of the process
When we propose rate changes, customers and community groups can give feedback on our request and attend public meetings or attend public OPUC meetings.
Understanding your bill
Here’s an example of a bill. We’ve numbered each section of the bill, so you can use the legend to see what each area means.
Manage your energy use
Your personal Customer Dashboard helps you maximize your savings, understand your bill, sign up for energy-saving programs and more.