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• Governor Kate Brown’s letter upon enacting SB 978 into law.  New law requires the OPUC to establish public process for purpose of investigating how industry trends, technologies and policy drivers in electricity sector might impact existing regulatory system and incentives currently employed by commission, 8/16/17
• NIPPC letter to BPA Administrator regarding OMP Real Power Loss Return business practice, 5/24/17
• NIPPC Executive Director, Robert Kahn’s comments at conclusion of WUTC hearing on UE-161123 Puget Sound Energy / Microsoft Retail Wheeling Docket. 5/3/17
• MegaWatt Daily reports on Microsoft going to direct access, 4/17/17
• SB 979 NIPPC’s Renewable Direct Access legislation introduced 3/2/17
• NIPPC’s formal written testimony explaining “renewable direct access” and why it’s needed now. The bill will be voted on by the Oregon Senate’s Business and Transportation Committee on 4/17/17
• Testimony supporting NIPPC’s revised Renewable Direct Access legislation, SB 979 before the Oregon Senate’s Business and Transportation Committee, 4/3/17
• SB 978-3 – Proposed revised text to NIPPC’s Oregon legislation, 4/14/17
• Testimony supporting NIPPC’s revised “Market First” legislation, SB 978 before the Oregon Senate’s Business and Transportation Committee, 4/5/17
• Overview of California’s “Market First” Energy Procurement Policy, which requires utilities to acquire new generation from the market unless there is a pressing need for utility owned generation, 3/28/17
• Electricity Daily reports on NIPPC’s efforts to redress “utility bias” in resource acquisition, 3/6/17
• Electricity Daily reports on NIPPC legislation to establish a true direct access market for renewables in Oregon, 3/6/17
• Clearing Up reports on NIPPC’s two energy policy reform bills in the Oregon Legislature, 3/3/17
• Portland Business Journal reports on Renewable Direct Access bill SB 979, 3/1/17