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Avista reaches all-party, all issues settlement in Oregon general rate case
If approved, new rates would take effect beginning September 1, 2025SPOKANE, Wash., March 28, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avista (NYSE: AVA), the Staff of the Public Utility Commission of Oregon (Commission), the Oregon Citizens’ Utility Board (“CUB”), Alliance of Western Energy Consumers (“AWEC”), and the joint intervenor Climate Solutions/Green Energy Institute at Lewis & Clark Law School, parties to the Company’s natural gas general rate case, have reached a settlement agreement that has been su
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