Utilities throw weight behind plan to eliminate coal and increase renewables

Oregon’s two biggest electric utilities told state regulators Friday that their compromise plan to eliminate coal-fired electricity and meet half their customers’ demand with renewable energy would be affordable, technically feasible and vastly preferable to ballot measures that environmental groups are proposing for next November.

By Ted Sickinger| The Oregonian/OregonLive

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