Portland General Electric
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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.
Company type | Public company |
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Industry | Public utility |
Founded | 1888; 136 years ago (1888) |
Headquarters | Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
Products | Electric power |
Revenue | US$1.9 billion (2015)[1] |
US$0.3 billion (2015)[1] | |
US$0.2 billion (2015)[1] | |
Total assets | US$7.2 billion (2015)[1] |
Total equity | US$2.3 billion (2015)[1] |
Number of employees | 2,646 (2016)[2] |
Website | portlandgeneral |
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.[3] 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 initiatives failed, but the company elected to close the plant twenty years early.