PacifiCorp mulls breakup that could align Wyoming with other pro-coal states
Wyoming and Utah may get what they’ve been pining for in recent years: the breakup of PacifiCorp. The electric utility giant has increasingly struggled to mesh pro-fossil-fuel policies favored by those states with cleaner energy policies preferred in other places it operates like California, Oregon and Washington.
But what a “corporate realignment” — which the company has not yet formally proposed — might look like and what it might mean for Wyoming ratepayers remains unknown. For now, the company will still pursue its existing rate hike proposals and otherwise make investments to continue to serve its customers, according to utility officials.
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“Just like any breakup of any partnership, or of any business, it’s not cost-free,” PacifiCorp’s Rocky Mountain Power President Dick Garlish told the Utah Legislature’s Public Utilities, Energy and Technology Interim Committee on Wednesday.
