Basic Service is the way you have traditionally paid for electricity.

Rates are based directly on the costs PGE incurs in providing electric service. You will continue on Basic Service automatically unless you select another option.

• Your electricity price equals your actual usage billed at the Basic Service rate.
• These energy charges do not reflect your total bill, which includes other charges such as basic charge, distribution and supplemental adjustments.
• Prices cannot be changed without PUC approval.
• There is no minimum length of participation.

You do not have to do anything to remain on Basic Service. To choose Time of Use pricing or a renewable power option, fill out our online enrollment form.

Supply mix
Your supplier has bought or plans to buy power or unique claims on the electricity produced from these types of power plants. The portion supplied by PGE is based on recent utility production and purchases. (May not add up to 100 percent due to rounding.) Figures represent 2005 data.

PGE may sell the environmental attributes (“Tradable Renewable Energy Credits” or “green tags”) associated with the renewable energy in our Basic Service resource mix, which may result in lower electric bills and/or the acquisition of additional renewable resources for our customers. Any renewable energy associated with green tag sales will be based on net system mix for reporting purposes. (Per OPUC Order No. 07-083)

Carbon dioxide is a major contributor to global climate change. Among the likely impacts for Oregon are less mountain snow pack and less water available in summer, higher sea levels, and threats to forests, crops, and fish and wildlife habitat. Coal and natural gas are the main sources of carbon dioxide from power generation.

Nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide are air pollutants that affect human health, plants, fish and wildlife. Nitrogen oxides contribute to smog. Coal is the main source of these pollutants from power generation. Natural gas plants produce nitrogen oxides.

Nuclear fuel wastes contain the most radioactive and long-lived waste formed during operation of nuclear power plants. These wastes are stored at nuclear power reactor sites. The United States has no permanent disposal site for these wastes.

Some hydropower dams contribute to the decline of salmon and other fish and wildlife populations.

* Source: Oregon Office of Energy