Portland’s largest electric utility wants data centers and other massive power users to shoulder a much larger share of the costs tied to rising electricity demand.
For households and small businesses, that could bring a rare bit of good news: lower rates instead of another increase.
According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland General Electric proposed a 29% rate hike for “large load” customers, such as data centers, while lowering rates by 1.3% for residential customers and 2.2% for commercial customers…