A small watchdog group, the Oregon Citizens’ Utility Board, will be looking into whether price hikes are justified based on what went down during the winter weather.
SALEM, Ore. — Many Portlanders just received their first power bill after a rate hike from Portland General Electric and a week of trying to keep warm amid temperatures hovering at or below freezing. On top of that, there’s a good chance they’ll soon be covering the cost for the outages that left hundreds of thousands of people without power, some of them multiple times or for days on end.
According to a statement from the company, PGE had restored
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