The plan outlines strategies to meet PGE customers’ electricity needs over the next 20 years, with a four-year action plan for acquisition of new resources to begin implementing those strategies.
PGE president and CEO Jim Piro said that this plan addresses the future energy needs of PGE’s customers and strikes a sensible balance between customer costs and risks and environmental impacts and sustainability.
"It also provides a reasonable transition time for moving away from coal to other sources of energy supply," Piro said.
PGE filed its 2009 integrated resource plan with the OPUC in November 2009 and then filed an addendum in April 2010 updating its plans for the Boardman plant.
The company said it will now develop requests for proposals, under the OPUC’s competitive bidding guidelines, to seek additional renewable and natural gas-fired generating resources called for in the four-year action plan.
PGE is a vertically-integrated electric utility that serves more than 822,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Oregon.
