Manager’s Message

Posted: April 19, 2024 at 11 a.m.

Call to Action: Short Mountain Power Plant

For more than three decades, we've generated electricity at the Short Mountain Landfill through an innovative partnership with Lane County. Unfortunately, in recent months the County has decided to ignore this partnership and pursue its own project. This will raise costs for all Lane County residents, but EPUD customers will be hit particularly hard. This is not okay by us and we are asking the County to reconsider.

Posted: February 9, 2024 at 2:21 p.m.

Ice Storm Reflections

It goes without saying the past month has been one of the most challenging in the history of our utility. From all of us at EPUD, we can't thank customers enough for your continued support during the historic ice storm event.

Posted: December 22, 2023 at 1:36 p.m.

The Year Ahead

Happy Holidays from all of us here at Seavey Loop! It’s been an exciting finish to the year, as we celebrated our 40th Anniversary and pushed forward on capital improvement projects across the District. As we turn the page on 2023, we’re excited about what’s to come in the year ahead.

Posted: October 2, 2023 at 3:20 p.m.

2024 Budget Process

As a public power utility, we take pride in having a transparent budget process. This year is no exception, and we recently released our 2024 budget proposal for public review.

Posted: August 24, 2023 at 8:45 a.m.

Doubling Down on Short Mountain

Last week our Board of Directors passed Resolution 2023-19, Adopting a New Strategic Direction for the Short Mountain Power Plant. This action represents an exciting step forward in expanding this source of local, renewable power generation.

Posted: June 14, 2023 at 4:03 p.m.

Strategic Plan Check In

As we reach the year's mid-point, we also find ourselves halfway through our current Strategic Plan time horizon. Time for a check in on how its going!

Posted: April 26, 2023 at 12:40 p.m.

State of the Utility

At long last the litigation with SUB is over. To celebrate, let's examine how Emerald is doing across a number of areas. Spoiler: we're looking good!

Posted: February 25, 2023 at 10:13 a.m.

Help Us Stop Springfield Utility Board’s Wasteful Lawsuit

For more than 20 years, the City of Springfield’s Utility Board (SUB) has been attempting to illegally seize our service territory. We’re asking them to stop. Find out how you can help.

Posted: January 24, 2023 at 5:41 p.m.

A Victory For Emerald’s Customers

Emerald has prevailed once again in a long-running court battle with the Springfield Utility Board (SUB). After two decades and hundreds of thousands of dollars wasted, it's time for them to stop this pointless fight.

Posted: November 28, 2022 at 11:10 a.m.

Outages and Reliability – Winter 2022-2023

The cold weather started early this season and it's a good reminder that storms could be headed our way soon. We've made great progress upgrading our system and it can handle a lot more damage than ever before. That said, the reality of living in Oregon (with all of our beautiful trees) is that outages can and do happen.