A meeting to hash out an upcoming Oregon study on RTO membership turned to how the state’s participation might fit into other developments in the West.

Current trends suggest that Oregon will come up short of its ZEV adoption goals over the next decade, but near-term policy developments could salvage them.

Oregon’s Department of Energy is seeking ways to dispense $50 million in public funding to support community-based renewable energy efforts.

Oregon’s Department of Energy is seeking input from power industry stakeholders to help produce a study that could convince lawmakers to obligate the state’s utilities to participate in an RTO.