PacifiCorp's New Plan: Use Coal Longer, Cut Renewables and Storage

April 10, 2024--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) --Last week, PacifiCorp (Portland, Oregon), a unit of Berkshire Hathaway Incorporated (NYSE:BRK.A) (Omaha, Nebraska), became the latest U.S. electric utility to delay the scheduled closure of coal-fired generating capacity.

PacifiCorp serves about 2.1 million customers in six Western states: Oregon, Washington, California, Wyoming, Utah and Idaho.