Facilities using or able to use at least 20 megawatts and primarily providing services covered by NAICS code 518210 are placed in a separate electricity-service classification.

The classification must have its own tariff schedule that allocates or directly assigns the costs of serving large energy use facilities to those facilities and mitigates the risk of costs being shifted to other customer classes.

The Public Utility Commission must consider increased costs or risks to other customers, grid benefits, clean-energy targets, greenhouse-gas reductions, generation-resource procurement, and other public-interest conditions before approving the tariff schedule.

An electric company providing service to a large energy use facility must enter into a contract covering applicable transmission, distribution, energy, capacity, and ancillary services.

The required electricity-service contract must last at least 10 years and specify the service start date or estimated start date.

The contract must require the facility to pay a minimum amount or percentage based on its projected electricity usage for the contracted services over the contract term.

The contract may impose an additional charge for electricity demand exceeding the contracted amount.

The contract requirements apply to certain preexisting contracts when serving the facility requires the electric company to make significant post-enactment investments or incur costs that could increase costs or risks for other customers.

The PUC must create a separate service classification and tariff schedule for qualifying facilities using or able to use at least 20 megawatts and primarily providing services under NAICS code 518210. The dedicated classification can provide a distinct regulatory and rate structure, although the tariff must allocate serving costs to the facility or its class and mitigate risks to other customers. separate and distinct from classifications of service

The PUC must require utilities serving qualifying facilities to enter into contracts covering applicable transmission, distribution, energy, capacity, and ancillary services. These contracts must specify a service-start date or estimated date and last at least 10 years, providing long-term service and infrastructure-planning certainty. be for a duration for 10 years or longer

Until January 2, 2028, a utility and a qualifying facility are not required to use the new large-energy-use classification if the PUC has not yet approved the utility's tariff schedule. This allows service to proceed under another applicable arrangement during the transition. are not required to use a classification of service

The law expressly preserves a qualifying facility's ability to use PUC-approved direct access, a green power rate, a voluntary renewable energy tariff, or a special contract, provided the applicable contract still meets the Act's requirements. using direct access

A qualifying facility's contract may include an additional charge for excess demand beyond the tariff schedule. This permits the contract to address demand above the facility's projected or contracted level, subject to the additional charge and PUC requirements. May include a charge for excess demand

Data centers with demand exceeding 20 MW, or contracted demand of at least 20 MW at a site, are subject to Schedule 96; Rule I also requires customers at or above 20 MW to enter a Large Load Customer Agreement. 20 MW

A Schedule 96 customer cannot be energized until PGE has a reliable plan of service that matches the customer’s planned capacity scale-up and does not impede PGE’s HB 2021 obligations. A lower-queued customer may proceed ahead of a higher-queued one if it has a compliant plan ready. Customers in the queue will not be served until a reliable plan of service

Large Load Customer Agreements have a minimum term of 10 years for a 20 MW load, increasing by one year for each additional 10 MW, up to 30 years for loads of 220 MW or more. Renewals have a 10-year minimum term. 10 years for a 20 MW load

Schedule 96 customers must pay minimum generation and transmission demand charges set at 90% of allocated system capacity. The same minimums apply to qualifying Schedule 90 LLCA customers. We adopt a MGD and MTD of 90 percent

Category 2B and 3 customers, including covered data centers, face a flat billed distribution demand charge intended to recover the revenue requirement for their dedicated distribution assets, rather than a charge based only on actual use. a flat billed distribution demand is appropriate for Category 2B and 3 customers

At contract signing, PGE may require a system capacity allocation deposit equal to two years of minimum transmission demand. It is refunded in two 50% installments in years two and three after energization only if the customer meets the specified 80% allocated-capacity demand and contracted flexibility-plan conditions. equal to two years of minimum transmission demand

Schedule 96 customers exceeding allocated system capacity incur an hourly penalty, with no buffer: four times the transmission rate and 1.5 times the generation rate. four times the transmission rate and 1.5 times the generation rate per hour

For customers with allocated capacity of 20 MW or more, an early-exit fee includes the net book value of incremental distribution assets and the greater of remaining minimum transmission and generation demand charges for the contract term or three years of those charges at the contract’s highest allocated system capacity. the remaining MTD and MGD charges for the remainder of the contract

Schedule 96 customers with allocated system capacity of at least 100 MW must pay a 1-cent-per-kWh surcharge for non-cost-effective energy efficiency, critical home repairs, or distributed energy resources. a surcharge of 1 cent per kWh

All Schedule 96 customers must contribute the maximum amount allowed under HB 3141 toward cost-effective energy efficiency and public-purpose programs, including during scale-up. require all Schedule 96 customers to contribute the maximum amount allowable

A Schedule 96 customer choosing direct access remains responsible for transition charges, the system-capacity deposit, exit fee, and flat distribution charge; it also pays a transmission demand charge for any shortfall below its minimum transmission demand. Direct access loads will pay transition charges

Special contracts must be filed with the Commission at least 60 days before the requested decision, allowing for Commission review before approval. at least 60 days ahead of a requested decision

A customer with a large load customer agreement (LLCA) or minimum load agreement (MLA) may contribute up to 100% of the cost of non-shared distribution assets. Customers of 20 MW or more may also contribute up to 100% of generation and transmission investments; this may speed interconnection when the delay is caused by generation or transmission needs.

Large loads may use direct access to procure their own generation. The customer remains responsible for applicable transition charges, the system capacity deposit, exit fee, distribution charge, and any shortfall between actual use and minimum transmission demand; the order does not impose a minimum generation demand charge on direct-access service.

The Schedule 96 interconnection queue allows a customer with a reliable, HB 2021-compliant plan of service matching its scale-up schedule to move forward even if a higher-queued load is not ready. A plan may rely on the customer's non-emitting resources under a Commission-approved special contract, direct access, load flexibility, or customer-funded load reductions.

Data centers may seek Commission-approved special contracts with PGE for dedicated resources to meet some or all of their energy and resource-adequacy needs. Review is case by case; filings must address resource cost, emissions targets, reliability, resource adequacy, and POWER Act requirements. The order identifies as guidance resources that were not shortlisted in an RFP, co-located resources, geothermal, and other case-by-case Commission-approved resources.

PGE may recognize a data center's grid-flexibility benefits as a credit in a special contract. The Commission will consider those benefits case by case; it did not establish a general flexibility subclass or automatic credit.

The schedule applies to data center customers with demand of at least 20,000 kW or a contract for at least that amount. Individually metered tenants are also covered when their site’s aggregated demand or contracted demand reaches 20,000 kW, even if the tenant’s own demand is lower.

Before opting out, customers must enroll the entire site under Schedule 96. A customer generally must take Schedule 96 service for at least one year before opting into Schedule 596; the one-year requirement does not apply to customers that existed before Schedule 96.

Customers must pay Schedule 596’s basic, distribution, peak-demand, and system-usage charges. Minimum charges include the basic and distribution charges, with minimum facility capacity and demand of 200 kW for primary-voltage service and 4,000 kW for subtransmission-voltage service. PGE may require higher minimums by written agreement when needed to justify its facilities investment.

If a customer subject to a Large Load Customer Agreement moves from Schedule 96 to Schedule 596 without meeting the agreement’s minimum transmission demand, it must pay the difference between actual and contracted demand at the effective Schedule 96 transmission-demand rate.

Demand above the customer’s Allocated System Capacity incurs an hourly penalty per MW of exceedance, calculated at four times the schedule’s transmission rate. Exceeding the Capacity Exceedance Threshold can also lead to curtailment, termination, or other remedies under the customer’s service contract.

Customers must have interval metering and meter communications in place before service begins under Schedule 596.

For primary- or subtransmission-voltage service, customers must provide, install, and maintain required transformers, switches, cutouts, protection equipment, and wiring. The equipment and its arrangement and operation are subject to PGE approval.

Qualifying data centers can receive direct-access service and choose an Electricity Service Supplier. Eligibility is limited to customers with demand of at least 20,000 kW, or a contract for that amount, providing data center services or serving as a landlord for such tenants; customers must first take service under Schedule 96 for at least one year, except those that existed before Schedule 96. Direct Access Service eligibility

Individually metered tenants on a data center campus can qualify even when their own demand is below 20,000 kW, if the aggregated site meets that threshold or has contracted for at least 20,000 kW. Tenants of data center campuses

Customers may change service options during an annual November election window, with the change taking effect January 1. November Election Window

Effective July 8, 2026, the approved rate changes result in an average rate increase of 29% for data center customers.

An exceedance penalty applies under Schedules 89 and 90 to customers who have signed a Large Load Customer Agreement. The document does not state the penalty amount or exceedance threshold.

PGE created Schedule 96, Data Center Standard Service, and Direct Access variations, establishing data-center-specific electricity rate schedules. The document does not state that these schedules offer lower rates; it says the overall rate changes average a 29% increase for data center customers.

Large data-center load requests of 20,000 kW or more fall under PGE’s capacity-allocation process. Applicants may have to fund feasibility, system-impact, and facilities studies; studies take at least 30, 60, and 90 days respectively, and completing a study does not guarantee capacity or service. In cluster studies, capacity may be allocated pro rata. Applicants in Capacity Categories 2A, 2B, and 3

Applicants in Capacity Category 3 must pay applicable study costs and sign a customer service contract as a condition of service. For a large-load customer agreement, the term is at least 10 years for 20 MW of allocated capacity, increasing by one year for each additional 10 MW, up to 30 years for loads of 220 MW or more. The contract can require billed distribution demand, minimum transmission and generation demand, a deposit equal to two years of minimum transmission demand, and an exit fee. required to sign a Customer Service Contract

Schedule 96 applies to qualifying data-center sites with demand of at least 20,000 kW or a contract for at least that amount. Certain customers—those starting service after June 16, 2025, or earlier customers whose service requires significant post-date investment or costs—must enter a service contract; any special contract is subject to PUC review and approval. Customers commencing service after the effective date of HB 3546

Schedule 96 customers that exceed their allocated system capacity face an hourly penalty per MW of excess demand, calculated at four times the transmission rate plus one and a half times the generation rate. PGE may also curtail or terminate service, or use other contract remedies. actual demand exceeds Allocated System Capacity

Schedule 96 imposes a reactive-demand charge of 50 cents per kVA for reactive demand above 40% of maximum demand, in addition to the scheduled monthly charges. Reactive Demand Charge

A targeted surcharge of 1 cent per kWh applies to Schedule 96, 496, 596, and 696 customers at sites with allocated system capacity of at least 100 MW, or to customers without a signed large-load agreement that reach at least 100 MW of peak demand twice in the preceding 12 months. Allocated System Capacity of 100 MW or greater per site

To move from Schedule 96 to data-center cost-of-service opt-out Schedule 496 or direct-access Schedule 596, a customer generally must first take service for the entire site under Schedule 96 for at least one year; Schedule 496 also requires prior enrollment in a long-term opt-out window. Schedule 496 shares a 300 MWa limit with several other opt-out schedules. minimum of one year prior to receiving service on this schedule

New-load data-center opt-out Schedule 696 is limited to 119 MWa and is offered first-come, first-served. The load must be separately metered or measured by an agreed method, qualify as new large load, and reach at least 20 MWa over a consecutive 12-month period within the first 36 months. Enrollment notice and an opt-out agreement are due by the earlier of one year before expected energization or when the customer enters a binding distribution-service agreement. limited to 119 MWa

Schedule 696 requires an eligible customer or its selected energy supplier to demonstrate creditworthiness; otherwise the customer is ineligible for the schedule and is placed on an applicable cost-of-service rate. A customer has 10 business days to sign the tendered service agreement. will not be eligible for service under this rate schedule

Schedule 696 requires customers to use an energy-resource mix that excludes coal-fired generation and to provide PGE a signed affidavit. A customer found in violation of the no-coal-delivered-by-wire requirement after January 1, 2030 is moved to the general cost-of-service opt-out program at the next direct-access opt-out window and is subject to transition adjustments. does not include coal-fired generation

Schedule 696 service has a minimum 36-month period to determine whether the customer meets its load threshold. If, after 36 months, the customer has not met the schedule’s stated minimum load requirement, PGE may de-enroll it and move it to a cost-of-service rate. Customers generally must give at least three years’ notice to return to cost-of-service pricing. minimum of 36 months

Data centers meeting the tariff’s 20,000 kW threshold can take service under a dedicated standard-service schedule. It covers qualifying data-center operators and landlords, and aggregates separately metered tenants on a campus when the site meets or has contracted for the threshold. The schedule offers cost-of-service pricing by default, a daily market-price option, or direct access to an electricity supplier; changing options is subject to notice and term requirements. Data Center Standard Service

Qualifying data centers can opt out of standard cost-of-service pricing through dedicated cost-of-service opt-out and direct-access schedules. The opt-out schedules require enrollment in a long-term opt-out window; the direct-access option requires service under Schedule 96 for at least one year, unless the customer existed before Schedule 96. These schedules are subject to enrollment and capacity limits, including the shared 300 MWa limit for specified long-term opt-out schedules. Data Center Cost-of-Service Opt-Out

A separate program lets qualifying new data-center loads opt out of cost-of-service-based pricing under Schedule 696 and choose direct access or company-supplied energy priced by a market index. The load must be separately metered, reach at least 20 MWa during a consecutive 12-month period within its first 36 months, and fit within the program’s 119 MWa cap; service has a minimum 36-month term and other enrollment requirements. Schedule 696 New Large Load Data Center

PGE’s tariff provides a process for large-load applicants to request capacity and obtain feasibility, system-impact, and facilities studies. For qualifying large projects, applicants enter a capacity-allocation process and a customer service contract; PGE may build and own distribution facilities to the service point, while the contract allocates the associated work costs to the applicant. System Capacity Allocation Process

Applicants may be allocated additional transmission capacity by proposing eligible flexible load before the initial study and participating in a PGE-approved flexible-load or demand-side-management program. Additional Allocated System Capacity

Under a Large Load Customer Agreement, PGE holds allocated system capacity for the contract term, including renewals, subject to possible reductions if the customer fails to meet flexible-load-plan requirements. Capacity reductions requested by a customer depend on whether PGE can reallocate the capacity to another customer. Capacity held under an LLCA