{"id":14521,"date":"2025-09-15T13:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14521"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:24:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:24:57","slug":"why-portland-has-astronomical-electric-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14521","title":{"rendered":"Why Portland has astronomical electric bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the fact Oregon has tons of free wind and dam power, we have power bills that are going up by double-digit rates every year. Up nearly 20% in just 3 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have much higher costs for power than many parts of the country. Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dramatically increased state regulation, demand pricing, and requirements to be 100% carbon free by 2040 name a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/environment\/2024\/03\/5-takeaways-why-are-oregon-power-rates-going-up-so-fast.html\">https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/environment\/2024\/03\/5-takeaways-why-are-oregon-power-rates-going-up-so-fast.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact Oregon has tons of free wind and dam power, we have power bills that are going up by double-digit rates every year. Up nearly 20% in just 3 years. We have much higher costs for power than many parts of the country. Why? Dramatically increased state regulation, demand pricing, and requirements to be 100% carbon free by 2040 name a few. https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/environment\/2024\/03\/5-takeaways-why-are-oregon-power-rates-going-up-so-fast.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-local-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3Md","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14522,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14521\/revisions\/14522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}