Portland General Electric Company | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-23

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00:01:41 1 History
00:08:34 1.1 Early attempts to convert the company to a public utility district
00:10:19 1.2 Attempted acquisition by Texas Pacific Group
00:14:02 1.3 Independence from Enron
00:14:24 2 Power plants
00:14:34 2.1 Thermal power plants
00:15:52 2.2 Hydroelectric plants
00:17:02 2.3 Renewable
00:17:44 3 Renewable energy sales
00:18:11 4 Corporate officers
00:18:32 5 See also



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Portland General Electric (PGE) is a Fortune 1000 public utility based in Portland, Oregon. It distributes electricity to customers in parts of Multnomah, Clackamas, Marion, Yamhill, Washington, and Polk counties - 44% of the inhabitants of Oregon. Founded in 1888 as the Willamette Falls Electric Company, the company has been an independent company for most of its existence, though was briefly owned by the Houston-based Enron Corporation from 1997 until 2006 when Enron divested itself of PGE during its bankruptcy.
Notably, PGE does not serve all of Portland.  Its service territory comprises most of Portland west of the Willamette River, sharing most of the city east of the river with Pacific Power.
PGE produces and purchases energy primarily from coal and natural gas plants, as well as hydroelectric power from dams on the Clackamas, Willamette and Deschutes rivers. Between 1976 and 1993, PGE operated Trojan, the only nuclear power plant in Oregon. Trojan was the subject of three Oregon initiatives to shut it down. The company won all three, but elected to close the plant twenty years early.