Company: POR
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000784977-25-000136
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Company: PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC CO /OR/
Filing Date: 2025-07-25
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
Chunk 148
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 the interests of customers and PGE.

As a part of the filing, PGE requests that the Distribution System Plan Alternative Recovery Mechanism be authorized for inclusion in customer prices by April 1, 2026. PGE’s request for recovery includes an annualized revenue requirement increase of $72 million, which includes a 9.34% return on equity as approved in UE 435, and a rate base increase of $335 million.

PGE and parties will work through the regulatory review process for the Distribution System Plan Alternative Recovery Mechanism during the coming months. PGE cannot predict the ultimate outcome of the regulatory process.

Portland Harbor Environmental Remediation Account (PHERA) mechanism—The EPA has listed PGE as one of over one hundred Potentially Responsible Parties (PRPs) related to the remediation of the Portland Harbor Superfund site. As of June 30, 2025, significant uncertainties still remained concerning the precise boundaries for clean-up, the assignment of responsibility for clean-up costs, the final selection of a proposed remedy by the EPA, and the method of allocation of costs amongst PRPs. It is probable that PGE will share in a portion of these costs. In a Record of Decision (ROD) issued in 2017, the EPA outlined its selected remediation plan for clean-up of the Portland Harbor site, which had an estimated total cost of $1.7 billion. Stakeholders have raised concerns that EPA’s cost estimates are understated, and PGE estimates undiscounted total remediation costs for Portland Harbor per the ROD could range from $1.9 billion to $3.5 billion. The Company does not currently have sufficient information to reasonably estimate the amount, or range, of its potential costs for investigation or remediation of Portland Harbor. However, the Company may obtain sufficient information, prior to the final determination of allocation percentages among PRPs, to develop a reasonable estimate, or range, of its potential liability that would require recording an estimate, or low end of the range. The Company’s liability related to the cost of remediating Portland Harbor could be material to PGE’s financial position. The impact of such costs to the Company’s results of operations is mitigated by the PHERA mechanism. As approved by the OPUC, the recovery mechanism allows the Company to defer and recover estimated liabilities and incurred legal and technical analysis expenditures related to the Portland Harbor Superfund Site through a combination of third-party proceeds, including, but not limited to, insurance recoveries, and customer prices