SB214 • 2025

Requires the Public Utility Commission to investigate the status of renewable energy projects in Oregon, including any project failures.

Energy

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Senator Smith DB
Last action: 2025-06-27
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires the Public Utility Commission to investigate the status of renewable energy projects in Oregon, including any project failures.

Digest: Makes the PUC do a study on the status of renewable energy projects in this state, including any failures.

What This Bill Does

Digest: Makes the PUC do a study on the status of renewable energy projects in this state, including any failures.
Makes the PUC submit a report on its findings.
(Flesch Readability Score: 62.7).
Requires the Public Utility Commission to investigate the status of renewable energy projects in Oregon, including any project failures.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2025-06-27 Senate
In committee upon adjournment.
2025-01-17 Senate
Referred to Energy and Environment.
2025-01-13 Senate
Introduction and first reading. Referred to President's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: Makes the PUC do a study on the status of renewable energy projects in this state, including any failures. Makes the PUC submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7).
Requires the Public Utility Commission to investigate the status of renewable energy projects in Oregon, including any project failures. Directs the commission to submit its findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
Relating to: Relating to the status of renewable energy projects in Oregon.
Current location: In Senate Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
Senate Bill 214
Sponsored by Senator SMITH DB (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: Makes the PUC do a study on the status of renewable energy projects in this state, in-
cluding any failures. Makes the PUC submit a report on its findings. (Flesch Readability Score:
62.7).
Requires the Public Utility Commission to investigate the status of renewable energy projects
in Oregon, including any project failures. Directs the commission to submit its findings to the in-
terim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy no later than September 15, 2026.
Sunsets January 2, 2027.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to the status of renewable energy projects in Oregon.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
(1) The Public Utility Commission shall conduct a study to investigate the
status of renewable energy projects in Oregon, including any project failures such as:
(a) Maintenance issues;
(b) Management issues;
(c) Project delays;
(d) Project cost overruns; and
(e) Failures to generate expected amounts of energy from a project.
(2) The commission shall submit a report on its findings in the manner provided by ORS
192.245, and may include recommendations for legislation, to the interim committees of the
Legislative Assembly related to energy no later than September 15, 2026.
SECTION 2.
Section 1 of this 2025 Act is repealed on January 2, 2027.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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