Energy Charges
Energy Charges include charges for the amount of energy you use, costs to bring the power to you, and any applicable Renewable Portfolio Option charges.
Basic Charge
The Basic Charge supports fixed costs such as meter reading, equipment, maintenance and billing necessary to serve customers, regardless of the amount of energy used. You pay the basic charge even if no electricity is used. It is a charge for having service available.
Energy Use Charge
The Energy Use Charge is the amount of electricity used multiplied by the cost for energy as stated in your rate schedule. For residential customers, kWh charges are on a tiered rate structure. You pay a lower price for the first 1,000 kWh you use each month. Energy charges for Time of Use and Flex PriceSM customers will be differentiated by the time of day and day of the week that the customer uses electricity.
Transmission and distribution charges
Transmission and distribution charges cover the cost of bringing power to you. The charges are broken out so you can see the cost of maintaining the utility poles, lines, substations, transmission towers and other equipment.
Renewable Portfolio Options
If you opt to support Green SourceSM, Clean WindSM, or Healthy HabitatSM Renewable Portfolio Options, a separate charge for the option will appear on your bill.
Adjustments
Adjustments are listed separately from your energy costs for transparency and because they often change. Some will eventually go away while new ones may be added. Others may periodically change from charges to credits or credits to charges.
102 Regional Power Act Exchange Credit (BPA Subscription Power Credit)
This credit was designed to give residential customers of investor-owned utilities access to the low-cost power of the Columbia River federally owned hydro-power system. For residential customers, this credit is on a tiered rate structure. PGE gains no additional revenues or profits from this adjustment; the law requires PGE to pass the benefits directly through to our customers.
105 Regulatory Adjustments
This adjustment collects or refunds miscellaneous items.
108 Public Purpose Charge (3 percent)
This charge will continue until January 1, 2026 for the purpose of funding energy efficiency, renewable resources, low-income energy efficiency, and housing and energy efficiency in schools. The public purpose charge is mandated by Oregon statute. PGE does not keep this money; PGE collects from customers and then passes the amount collected to various organizations responsible for these programs, such as the Oregon Housing and Community Services Department and the Energy Trust of Oregon.
109 Energy Efficiency Funding Adjustment
This adjustment is to fund additional energy efficiency measures for the benefit of PGE’s customers pursuant to the Oregon Renewable Energy Act through programs administered by the Energy Trust of Oregon.
110 Energy Efficiency Customer Service
This adjustment is to fund PGE activities associated with helping customers be more energy efficient. Such activities include project facilitation, technical assistance, education and assistance to support programs administered by the Energy Trust of Oregon.
115 Low Income Assistance
This fee is mandated by Oregon statute. The purpose of this fee is to provide stable funding for low income customers who cannot pay their electric bills. PGE does not keep this money but passes it on to the Oregon Department of Housing and Community Services, which then distributes the funds to the various local Community Action Program agencies within PGE’s service territory.
122 Renewable Resources Automatic Adjustment Clause
This adjustment recovers the cost of renewable energy resource projects not otherwise included in the energy charge.
123 Decoupling Adjustment
This adjustment has two parts. For Schedules 7 Residential and 32 Small Nonresidential, Decoupling tracks and adjusts the fixed portion of revenues (transmission, distribution and fixed generation) associated with variations in energy use not attributable to weather. The Lost Revenue Recovery Adjustment portion of this tariff trues-up forecast and actual energy efficiency for applicable Large Nonresidential customers.
125 Annual Power Cost Update
This adjustment reflects annual changes in unit net variable power costs relative to the unit net variable power costs contained in base rates.
126 Annual Power Cost Variance Mechanism
This adjustment recognizes in rates, part of the difference for a given year between net variable power costs incurred and projected net variable power costs.
128 Short-Term Transition Adjustment
This adjustment applies to nonresidential customers who are on Schedules 515, 532, 538, 549, 575, 583, 585, 589, 591, 592, (Direct Access service) or have selected a PGE daily market pricing option (other than cost of service).
129 Long-Term Transition Cost Adjustment
This adjustment applies to Large nonresidential customers who are on Schedules 485 and 489.
135 Demand Response Cost Recovery Mechanism
This adjustment recovers the costs associated with PGE’s automated demand response program.
137 Solar Payment Option Cost Recovery
This adjustment recovers the costs associated with the Solar Payment Option pilot program.
140 Income Tax Adjustment
This adjustment implements the automatic income tax adjustment required by an Oregon Revised Statue and establishes the balancing account and automatic adjustment clause required by the Oregon Public Utility Commission.
145 Boardman Power Plant Operating Life Adjustment
This adjustment establishes the mechanism to implement in rates, the revenue effect of a Public Utility Commission-authorized change in the Boardman Power Plant’s assumed end of life year of 2040 to an end of life year of 2020.
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