Company: POR
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000784977-25-000074
Chunk: 161

Company: PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC CO /OR/
Filing Date: 2025-04-25
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
Chunk 161
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 capital projects, the repayments of maturing debt, and stock-based compensation plans, which are relied upon in part to retain key executives and employees;

•future laws, regulations, and proceedings that could increase the Company’s costs of operating its thermal generating plants, or affect the operations of such plants by imposing requirements for additional emissions controls or significant emissions fees or taxes, particularly with respect to coal-fired generating facilities, in order to mitigate carbon dioxide, mercury, and other gas emissions;

•changes in, compliance with, and general uncertainty around environmental laws and policies;

•the effects of climate change, whether global or local in nature, including unseasonable or extreme weather and other natural phenomena that may affect energy costs or consumption, increase the Company’s costs, cause damage to PGE facilities and system, or adversely affect its operations;

•changes in residential, commercial, or industrial customer growth, or demographic patterns, including changes in load resulting in future transmission constraints, in PGE’s service territory;

•the effectiveness of PGE’s risk management policies and procedures;

•cybersecurity attacks, data security breaches, physical attacks and security breaches, or other malicious acts, internally or to third parties, that cause damage to the Company’s generation, transmission, or distribution facilities, information technology systems, inhibit the capability of equipment or systems to function as designed or expected, or result in the release of confidential customer, vendor, employee, or Company information;

•reputational damage from negative publicity, protests, fines, penalties and other negative consequences resulting in regulatory and/or legal actions;

•physical attacks upon Company employees;

•employee workforce factors, including potential strikes, work stoppages, transitions in senior management, the ability to recruit and retain key employees and other talent, and turnover due to macroeconomic trends such as voluntary resignation of large numbers of employees similar to that experienced by other employers and industries during the COVID-19 pandemic;  

•new federal, state, and local laws that could have adverse effects on operating results;

•failure to achieve the Company’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emission goals or being perceived to have either failed to act responsibly with respect to the environment or effectively respond to legislative requirements concerning GHG emission reductions, any of which could lead to adverse publicity and have adverse effects on the Company's operations and/or damage the Company's reputation;

•social attitudes regarding the electric utility and power industries; 

•political and economic conditions;

•the impact of widespread health developments, and responses to such developments (such as voluntary and mandatory quarantines, including