Investigation into Marginal Cost Study Treatment of Costs for Large Customers and Further Modifications to Portland General Electric Company's Rule C and Rule I, Order No. 26-154 (Docket No. UM 2377)
two-reviewer order approved or-puc-um2377-order26154-pge-schedule96
Record created 2026-08-22, last updated 2026-08-22. Snapshot built September 14, 2026. JSON
Fields, as recorded
- State
- OR
- Kind
- order
- Status
- approved
- Agency
- Public Utility Commission of Oregon (PUC/OPUC)
- Utility
- Portland General Electric Company (PGE)
- Citation
- In the Matter of Public Utility Commission of Oregon, Investigation into Marginal Cost Study Treatment of Costs for Large Customers and Further Modifications to Portland General Electric Company's Rule C and Rule I, Or. Pub. Util. Comm'n Docket No. UM 2377 (opened at the March 7, 2025 Public Meeting), Order No. 26-154, entered 05/07/2026
- Docket
- UM 2377
- Effective
- 2026-05-07
- Threshold MW
- $99 Oregon pass
- Contract term (years)
- $99 Oregon pass
- Minimum take %
- $99 Oregon pass
- Mandatory
- $99 Oregon pass
- Summary
- $99 Oregon pass
- Exit terms
- $99 Oregon pass
- Collateral terms
- $99 Oregon pass
- Generation requirements
- $99 Oregon pass
- Cost allocation
- $99 Oregon pass
- Locked fields
- $99 Oregon pass 9 recorded fields on this record are in the state and all-states passes.
Sources
16 rows, every one with a quote and a pinpoint. 3 quotes open here- Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
“In this order, we address numerous issues related to the design of Portland General Electric Company's (PGE) tariff for large loads, including creation of a customer class for data centers, specifically. While we opened this investigation in response to concerns raised in prior rate case proceedings on large loads from multiple sources, the passage of House Bill (HB) 3546, the POWER Act, created an additional statutory foundation for our work. This decision marks the first implementation of that statute, where the Legislature directed the Commission to allocate or directly assign the costs of serving a data center to those customers specifically and mitigate the risk that other classes of customers are paying unwarranted costs.”
PDF p.1 (Introduction)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf
Fetched directly via curl (Chrome UA), 77-page PDF (34.6MB). [OR GATE 2026-08-24 - METHOD CORRECTION] This PDF is NOT born-digital. Its producer string is "Adobe Acrobat (64-bit) 26 Paper Capture Plug-in" (Adobe's OCR engine); each page is roughly 1.3 MB of traced vector outlines with an invisible OCR text layer behind it and ZERO embedded images, so the images-plus-text scanned-page test does not fire. The native PyMuPDF layer is measurably corrupt (Staff's -> "Staffs", C AND I -> "CANDI", 100 -> "I 00", AWEC -> "A WEC", PGE's -> "PGE' s", UM 2377 -> "UM2377"). This quote was re-verified against a fresh 300 dpi render of the cited page run through tesseract. DO NOT quote this document from its native text layer. - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
“The POWER Act requires Schedule 96 customers to execute contracts with minimum demand provisions based on the customer's "projected electricity usage," but does not specify the level of the minimum demand. For MGD and MTD, the parties have coalesced around either 80 percent or 90 percent for Schedule 96 customers. We adopt a MGD and MTD of 90 percent, finding that they are consistent with the POWER Act's directive to avoid shifting costs from large data centers to other rate classes and will result in just and reasonable rates.”
PDF p.42 (MGD/MTD resolution)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf
Same fetch as prior source row. [OR GATE 2026-08-24 - METHOD CORRECTION] This PDF is NOT born-digital. Its producer string is "Adobe Acrobat (64-bit) 26 Paper Capture Plug-in" (Adobe's OCR engine); each page is roughly 1.3 MB of traced vector outlines with an invisible OCR text layer behind it and ZERO embedded images, so the images-plus-text scanned-page test does not fire. The native PyMuPDF layer is measurably corrupt (Staff's -> "Staffs", C AND I -> "CANDI", 100 -> "I 00", AWEC -> "A WEC", PGE's -> "PGE' s", UM 2377 -> "UM2377"). This quote was re-verified against a fresh 300 dpi render of the cited page run through tesseract. DO NOT quote this document from its native text layer. ARTIFACT NOTE: the order prints its own footnote marker 55 inline immediately after the words "projected electricity usage," - the stored quote omits it, which is why a strict contiguity check flags this row. Verbatim once the inline footnote marker is stripped. - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
“We find that Staff's recommendation to require a term of 10 years for a 20 MW load, with the term increasing by one year for each 10 MW increment in load up to a maximum of 30 years for a load 220 MW or greater is reasonable and consistent with the requirements of the POWER Act. Contract renewals will be for 10 years across the board”
PDF p.36 (Rule I contract-term resolution)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf
Same fetch as prior source row. [OR GATE 2026-08-24 - METHOD CORRECTION] This PDF is NOT born-digital. Its producer string is "Adobe Acrobat (64-bit) 26 Paper Capture Plug-in" (Adobe's OCR engine); each page is roughly 1.3 MB of traced vector outlines with an invisible OCR text layer behind it and ZERO embedded images, so the images-plus-text scanned-page test does not fire. The native PyMuPDF layer is measurably corrupt (Staff's -> "Staffs", C AND I -> "CANDI", 100 -> "I 00", AWEC -> "A WEC", PGE's -> "PGE' s", UM 2377 -> "UM2377"). This quote was re-verified against a fresh 300 dpi render of the cited page run through tesseract. DO NOT quote this document from its native text layer. TWO CORRECTIONS ON THIS ROW: (a) the pinpoint was recorded as PDF p.34-35; the passage is on PDF p.36. (b) The quote previously read "Staffs" (no apostrophe), which the collector recorded as "reproduced exactly as it appears in the source PDF's extracted text" alongside the note "OCR-note: not applicable, born-digital PDF." Both halves of that were wrong: the extracted text IS an OCR layer, and the page itself plainly prints "Staff's" with a curly apostrophe - confirmed by a fresh 300 dpi tesseract pass, by a 900 dpi crop, and by direct visual inspection of the rendered glyphs. Corrected to the document's own text. - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377, First Partial Stipulation (Appendix A) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 366 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.72 (Appendix A p.1, First Partial Stipulation opening paragraph)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 151 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.1 (caption, disposition line)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 484 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.5 (HB 3546 definition and the order's own shorthand)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 187 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.5 (order's naming convention)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 440 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.45 (system capacity deposit resolution)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 371 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.50 (Rule I exit-fee resolution)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 294 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.50 (Coalition witness quotation, Souder)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377 (Oregon PUC) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 213 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF pp.43-44 (minimum distribution demand resolution)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377, First Partial Stipulation (Appendix A) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 477 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.73 (Appendix A p.2, stipulation items 3 and 4)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377, First Partial Stipulation (Appendix A) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 111 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.77 (Appendix A p.6, signature page)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - Order No. 26-154, Docket UM 2377, First Partial Stipulation (Appendix A) order two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 448 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
PDF p.72 (Appendix A p.1, procedural recital)
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/orders/2026ords/26-154.pdf - OPUC eDockets docket page, UM 2377 docket two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 259 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
docket description block
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/edockets/docket.asp?DocketID=24470 - OPUC eDockets docket page, UM 2377 docket two-reviewer
$99 Oregon pass quote, 109 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.
filing history entries 2025-08-11, 2025-11-07, 2025-12-19 and 2026-04-20
https://apps.puc.state.or.us/edockets/docket.asp?DocketID=24470