Section 757.250 – Standards and appliances for measuring service; rules.
(1) The Public Utility Commission shall ascertain and prescribe for each kind of public utility suitable and convenient standard commercial units of service. These shall be lawful units for the purposes of this chapter. (2) The commission shall ascertain and fix adequate and serviceable standards for the measurement of quality, pressure, initial voltage or other […]
Section 757.255 – Testing of measuring appliances; rules; fees.
(1) The Public Utility Commission may provide for the examination and testing of any and all appliances used for the measuring of any service of a public utility, and may provide by rule that no such appliance shall be installed and used for the measuring of any service of any public utility until it has […]
Section 757.259 – Amounts includable in rate schedule; deferral; limit in effect on rates by amortization; rules.
(1) In addition to powers otherwise vested in the Public Utility Commission, and subject to the limitations contained in this section, under amortization schedules set by the commission, a rate or rate schedule: (a) May reflect: (A) Amounts lawfully imposed retroactively by order of another governmental agency; or (B) Amounts deferred under subsection (2) of […]
Section 757.260
[Amended by 1971 c.655 §18; renumbered 756.075]
Section 757.262 – Rates to encourage acquisition of cost-effective conservation resources; rules.
(1) The Public Utility Commission, by rule, may adopt policies designed to encourage the acquisition of cost-effective conservation resources and small-scale, renewable-fuel electric generating resources. (2) In furtherance of the policies adopted pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, and in such manner as the commission considers proper, the commission may authorize periodic rate adjustments […]
Section 757.205 – Filing schedules with commission; data filed with schedules.
(1) Every public utility shall file with the Public Utility Commission, within a time to be fixed by the commission, schedules which shall be open to public inspection, showing all rates, tolls and charges which it has established and which are in force at the time for any service performed by it within the state, […]
Section 757.264 – Annual forecast of certain projected production tax credits required; inclusion in rates.
Each public utility that makes sales of electricity shall forecast on an annual basis the projected state and federal production tax credits received by the public utility due to variable renewable electricity production, and the Public Utility Commission shall allow those forecasts to be included in rates through any variable power cost forecasting process established […]
Section 757.210 – Hearing to establish new schedules; alternative regulation plan.
(1)(a) Whenever any public utility files with the Public Utility Commission any rate or schedule of rates stating or establishing a new rate or schedule of rates or increasing an existing rate or schedule of rates, the commission may, either upon written complaint or upon the commission’s own initiative, after reasonable notice, conduct a hearing […]
Section 757.266 – Rates may encourage tree planting programs as offset to carbon dioxide emissions.
The Public Utility Commission of Oregon may allow a rate or rate schedule of a public utility to reflect amounts for small scale programs that enable the utility to gain experience with tree planting on underproducing forestland, as defined by the State Forestry Department, as an offset to carbon dioxide emissions. [1993 c.286 §1] Note: […]
Section 757.212 – Resource rate plans; customers who may elect to be exempt; order approving plan; effect of approving plan; rules.
(1) For purposes of this section: (a) “Resource rate plan” means a plan by a public utility to construct a generating plant or to enter into a wholesale power purchase or sales agreement with a term that is longer than one year. (b) “Site” means: (A) Buildings or other related structures that are interconnected by […]