PacifiCorp

PacifiCorp
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryElectric power industry
Founded1910 (1910)
HeadquartersLloyd Center Tower
Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Area served
Key people
  • Cindy Crane (Chair and CEO, PacifiCorp)
  • Ryan Flynn (President, Pacific Power Division)
  • Richard Garlish (President, Rocky Mountain Power Division)
Number of employees
5,200
ParentBerkshire Hathaway Energy
Divisions
  • Pacific Power
  • Rocky Mountain Power
Websitepacificorp.com
Footnotes / references

PacifiCorp is an electric power company based in the Lloyd Center Tower in Portland, Oregon with operations in the western United States.

PacifiCorp has two business units: Pacific Power, a regulated electric utility with service territory throughout Oregon, northern California, and southeastern Washington headquartered in Portland, Oregon; and Rocky Mountain Power, a regulated electric utility with service territory throughout Utah, Wyoming, and southeastern Idaho, headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. PacifiCorp operates one of the largest privately held transmission systems in the U.S. within the western Energy Imbalance Market.

Pacific Power and Rocky Mountain Power combined serve over 1.6 million residential customers, 202,000 commercial customers, and 37,000 industrial and irrigation customers, for a total of approximately 1,813,000 customers. The service area is 143,000 square miles (370,000 km2). The company owns and maintains 16,500 miles (26,600 km) of long-distance transmission lines, 64,000 miles (103,000 km) of distribution lines, and 900 substations.

PacifiCorp owns, maintains and operates generation assets and manages the commercial and trading operations of the company. PacifiCorp owns 68 generating plants with a capacity of 9,140 megawatts. 70.6% of the generation is from thermal sources (i.e., coal or natural gas), 6.7% from hydroelectric sources, and 0.2% from renewable sources. 22.5% of PacifiCorp's generation is purchased from other suppliers or under contracts.

The company is planning on keeping only 3 of its 22 coal-fired power stations operational beyond 2040 and is planning to source 56% of its yearly consumption with renewable energy by 2040.