energy

The proliferation of power-hungry data centers is making it difficult to predict the future of the Pacific Northwest’s energy needs.

The Springfield Utility Board has chosen a former PG&E executive from Oakland, California as its next general manager.

The Eugene Water & Electric Board has hired the current leader of the Bonneville Power Administration as its new general manager.

Oregon is set to lose an additional $400 million in federal grants awarded for climate action and is among more than a dozen Democratic states losing federal funding after the Trump administration terminated nearly $8 billion for those states this week.

Nearly 195,000 acres off the Southern Oregon coast were previously identified as sites for offshore wind development.

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, or BOEM, said it was delaying the upcoming Oregon lease sale due to lack of interest.

At least one company is no longer interested in bidding on a chance to develop a floating offshore wind project off the Southern Oregon coast, and others may also have backed out.

Oregon is asking the public to weigh in on a plan to reboot the Climate Protection Program, which aims to reduce carbon emissions from oil and gas companies and support some of the communities that will be hardest hit by climate change.

EWEB officials say last week’s heat wave saw the highest summertime power usage in nearly two decades.

EWEB is considering increasing raising electricity and water rates - citing rising costs.

The utility says they don't anticipate a shortage during this heat wave. But they are anticipating a hotter-than-normal summer which will continue to put a strain on power supplies.

People selling their home in Corvallis will need to disclose their property’s energy efficiency rating starting next April.