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State regulators push back on PGE’s green energy plan

Portland General Electric officials entered a meeting in Salem this week intent on persuading state regulators that it makes economic and environmental sense to move quickly on a massive new wind farm to meet the state’s expanded green energy mandates.

The utility was already playing defense. Facing intense blowback from environmental advocates, ratepayer groups and regulatory staff, it had abandoned the centerpiece of the resource plan it had submitted to the Public Utility Commission in November. That would potentially have had it building two new gas plants in Boardman to replace the coal-fired plant it will close there in 2020.

By Ted Sickinger [email protected] The Oregonian/OregonLive

Full Story: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2017/08/regulators_reject_pges_plan_on.html#incart_river_index

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