Large Energy Use Facilities Act ("POWER Act"), 2025 Oregon Laws Chapter 323 (House Bill 3546)

two-reviewer statute enacted or-hb3546-2025-power-act

This record is listed in full and read in part. Its identity, citation, docket, status and review state are open, and so are all 8 of its source documents with their pinpoints, so you can go read the primary text yourself. The first 3 extracted quotes are open too. The recorded term fields, and the remaining quotes, are in the $99 Oregon pass and the $199 all-states pass. Pricing.

Record created 2026-08-22, last updated 2026-08-22. Snapshot built September 14, 2026. JSON

Fields, as recorded

State: OR
Kind: statute
Status: enacted
Agency: Public Utility Commission of Oregon (PUC/OPUC)
Citation: Enrolled House Bill 3546, 83rd Oregon Legislative Assembly, 2025 Regular Session, codified as new sections added to ORS chapter 757; enacted as Oregon Laws 2025, Chapter 323 (confirmed on the state's own chapter print, oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2025orLaw0323.pdf, and in the OLIS measure-history record); emergency clause, took effect on passage
Effective: 2025-06-16
Threshold MW: $99 Oregon pass
Contract term (years): $99 Oregon pass
Mandatory: $99 Oregon pass
Summary: $99 Oregon pass
Cost allocation: $99 Oregon pass
Locked fields: $99 Oregon pass 5 recorded fields on this record are in the state and all-states passes.

Sources

8 rows, every one with a quote and a pinpoint. 3 quotes open here

Enrolled House Bill 3546, 2025 Regular Session (POWER Act) statute two-reviewer
“Large energy use facility” means a facility that uses or is able to use 20 megawatts or more and is primarily engaged in providing a service described under code 518210 of the 2022 North American Industry Classification System.
PDF p.1, Section 2(1)(d) and 2(2)
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB3546
Fetched directly via curl (Chrome UA) from olis.oregonlegislature.gov; 3-page born-digital PDF, extracted with pdfplumber, no OCR needed. Passed by Senate June 3, 2025 (final chamber passage date used as pub_date); House repassage June 5, 2025.
Enrolled House Bill 3546, 2025 Regular Session (POWER Act) statute two-reviewer
“Must: (i) Be consistent with the criteria listed under section 2 (3) of this 2025 Act; (ii) Specify the duration of the contract and be for a duration for 10 years or longer; (iii) Specify the date or estimated date that the electric company will begin to provide electricity service to the retail electricity consumer; (iv) Obligate the retail electricity consumer to pay a minimum amount or percentage, as determined by the commission, based on the retail electricity consumer’s projected electricity usage for the electricity services the electric company is contracted to provide for the duration of the contract”
PDF p.2, Section 5(1)(b)(A)
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB3546
Same fetch as prior source row.
Enrolled House Bill 3546, 2025 Regular Session (POWER Act) statute two-reviewer
“The Public Utility Commission shall provide for a classification of service under ORS 757.230 for retail electricity consumers that are large energy use facilities. The classification of service must be separate and distinct from classifications of service for other commercial or industrial retail electricity consumers and have its own tariff schedule. Any tariff schedule adopted by the commission for the class must: (a)(A) Allocate the costs of serving the class of retail electricity consumers that are large energy use facilities to the class in a manner that is equal or proportional to the costs of serving the class; or (B) Directly assign the costs of serving a retail electricity consumer that is a large energy use facility to the retail electricity consumer”
PDF p.1, Section 2(2)
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB3546
[OR GATE 2026-08-24] Added by the second reviewer to ground an instrument field that carried no evidence row. This is the operative cost-allocation mandate quoted in the instrument's cost_allocation field.
Enrolled House Bill 3546, 2025 Regular Session (POWER Act) statute two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 545 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.3, Sections 7, 8 and 9
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB3546
Enrolled House Bill 3546, 2025 Regular Session (POWER Act) statute two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 135 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.2, Section 4; PDF p.3 passage record
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB3546
Oregon Laws 2025, Chapter 323 (HB 3546), state chapter print statute two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 123 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.2, foot of the chapter
https://www.oregonlegislature.gov/bills_laws/lawsstatutes/2025orLaw0323.pdf
OLIS Measure Overview / History for HB 3546 (2025R1) government two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 129 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
embedded page JSON metadata blob
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2025R1/Measures/Overview/HB3546
OLIS OData MeasureHistoryActions, HB 3546 (2025R1) government two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 75 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
ActionDate 2025-06-16 and 2025-07-07 entries
https://api.oregonlegislature.gov/odata/odataservice.svc/MeasureHistoryActions?$filter=MeasureNumber%20eq%203546%20and%20SessionKey%20eq%20'2025R1'&$format=json