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Pricing & COS Analyst (PORTLAND, OR, US, 97232)

July 21, 2026
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Power Your Greatness

PacifiCorp is seeking customer-centric candidates to grow and sustain our commitment to a culture of customer service excellence, environmental sustainability, inclusion and belonging.

General Purpose

Join a team that helps shape the future of energy pricing and regulatory strategy!
 
As a Pricing & Cost of Service Analyst, you will conduct in-depth analyses of utility rates, pricing structures, and cost-of-service data to support informed business and regulatory decisions. This role is responsible for developing cost-of-service studies, evaluating rate design and rate spread alternatives, and preparing proposals to revise retail electric prices. Leveraging data-driven insights, you will perform feasibility studies, cost-benefit assessments, revenue analyses, forecasting, and trend evaluations, while partnering with internal stakeholders to develop recommendations that balance customer impacts, regulatory requirements, and business objectives. The position offers a unique opportunity to influence pricing strategies and contribute to the delivery of safe, reliable, and affordable energy services.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct analysis related to cost of service, design of retail electric prices, rate spread, special contract analysis, revenue normalization, rate analysis, and reporting.
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The POWER Interview: Importance of Pricing Data for Renewable Energy

May 4, 2022
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The highs and lows of markets for renewable energy are driving more interest in granular pricing data. Any company embarking on a new project must do its research to ensure that it calculates the proceeds based on the right financial information. With so much data now readily available, it’s more important than ever to use the right data, and make accurate calculations.

Amid the boom in demand for renewable power plants, that is not always happening when backers go to measure the value of the energy they will generate. Here’s why, according to Jennifer Newman, vice president of Atmospheric Science Research at REsurety, the Boston, Massachusetts-based renewable industry data and analytics company, who says friends don’t let friends use “8760s.”

POWER: What is an 8760 and how is it used in the renewable energy industry?

Newman: An 8760 (sometimes referred to as a typical meteorological year or TMY) consists of hourly generation values for a wind or solar project for all 8,760 hours of a typical year.…

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More U.S. Coal Units Closing Despite Possible Market Pricing Change

November 22, 2017
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U.S. utilities continue to announce closures of financially troubled and older coal-fired power plants even as government officials work on a bailout plan to keep them operating.

Owners of a coal plant in Montana that has only been online since 2006 informed the state’s Public Service Commission (PSC) last week of plans to shutter the facility early next year if they can’t find a buyer. The news comes at the same time Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities (LG&E-KU) said it would close two long-running coal-fired units at the E.W. Brown Generating Station near Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in February 2019.

The announcements are the latest in a series of closures announced in recent months, including three large coal-fired plants in Texas—two operated by Vistra Energy and another by Luminant, a Vistra subsidiary—that generate about 4.2 GW of electricity, or about 12% of the state’s coal-fired generation capacity. Another large Texas plant, CPS Energy’s 840-MW Deely station in San Antonio, is scheduled to close in 2018.…

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