PacifiCorp has asked the Oregon Public Utility Commission to limit future lawsuit awards against the company to “actual” damages for property and loss of life.

Oregon’s second-largest electrical utility, PacifiCorp, played a significant role in the Labor Day wildfires that ravaged parts of the state in 2020, according to a Multnomah County jury.

PacifiCorp reached a $178 million settlement with 403 victims of the 2020 Labor Day fires, the company announced Monday, while hitting an impasse with thousands of others.

PacifiCorp was among the first Portland companies to ask workers to come back to the office, telling them in November 2020 that those who didn’t return would face a 10% pay cut.

PacifiCorp is part of billionaire Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate. The regulated monopoly utility operates in six western states, including Wyoming, ...

PacifiCorp executives estimate the 2020 Labor Day Fires and 2022 wildfires caused by the company’s equipment in Oregon cost them nearly $2.7 billion.

As the 2025 legislative session lurches toward its conclusion, a bipartisan bill aimed at speeding wildfire damage payouts remains stalled in committee.

An Oregon state jury on Tuesday ordered PacifiCorp, an Oregon electric utility owned by billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, to pay at least $62 million to nine homeowners whose ...

Meanwhile, in Oregon, PacifiCorp may have to pay upward of $1 billion in damages to victims of the 2020 fires that its infrastructure was found to have started.

When asked to rate PacifiCorp’s handling of the 2020 fires, Oatis was blunt. “On a scale of one to 10, simply put, I’d give them a two,” he said. THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR: ...

PacifiCorp announced in 2023 that it would shutter the Huntington and Hunter coal plants in Utah by 2032. But an update to that integrated resource plan (IRP) ...

TerraPower LLC, Bill Gates' advanced nuclear reactor company, and power company PacifiCorp said on Thursday they will undertake a study to evaluate deploying up to five additional Natrium reactors ...