Portland General Electric Announces Third Quarter 2025 Results
Portland General Electric Announces Third Quarter 2025 Results |
| [31-October-2025] |
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Portland General Electric Company (NYSE: POR) today reported net income based on generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) of $103 million, or $0.94 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2025. After adjusting for the impact of business transformation and optimization expenses, third quarter 2025 non-GAAP net income was $110 million, or $1.00 per diluted share. This compares with GAAP net income of $94 million, or $0.90 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2024. "Our team delivered another strong quarter in Q3 as we remain laser-focused on execution and driving value for customers, communities and shareholders," said Maria Pope, President and CEO. "We are working to procure energy to meet dramatically higher customer demand under our rigorous least-cost, least-risk approach. Our multi-pronged strategy prioritizes reliable delivery of energy to customers while maximizing the window of federal clean energy tax credits, allowing our customers to receive the full benefit of high-value clean energy resources at the lowest cost possible." Third Quarter 2025 Compared to Third Quarter 2024 On a GAAP basis, total revenues increased, driven by continued demand growth from technology infrastructure customers and improved cost recovery. Purchased power and fuel expense declined slightly, reflecting stable market conditions and a reduction in wholesale energy deliveries. Operating and maintenance expenses were largely flat after considering a 2024 reserve. Depreciation and amortization expense and interest expense increased due to ongoing capital investment. Income tax expense increased primarily due to lower production tax credit benefits. Company Updates Resource Procurement On October 1, 2025, PGE requested acknowledgement from the Public Utility Commission of Oregon (OPUC) of an updated final shortlist of bidders for the 2023 All-Source Request for Proposal (RFP) to meet PGE's articulated resource needs. PGE is proceeding to commercial negotiations with bidders for projects on the updated final shortlist and expects finalization of contracts for projects that meet selection criteria by the end of 2025 or in the first quarter of 2026, with projects in service by the end of 2027. The 2023 RFP is a component of PGE's multi-pronged procurement approach focused on customer affordability, system reliability, and decarbonization. In parallel with the 2023 RFP, the Company is seeking additional renewable energy and non-emitting capacity through purchased power agreements (PPAs), including a bilateral all-call for PPAs, community-based renewable energy procurement, and the ongoing 2025 RFP process. The 2025 RFP was issued to market in July 2025, seeking bids for owned and contracted resources that can provide non-emitting dispatchable capacity and renewable generation. Bids have been received and are currently being evaluated based on the OPUC-approved scoring methodology. PGE plans to file for acknowledgement of a proposed final shortlist in the first quarter of 2026, allowing PGE to begin negotiations with shortlisted bids. Regulatory Updates As previously announced, on October 21, 2025, the OPUC issued an Order in the request to recover the revenue requirement associated with the Seaside Battery Energy Storage System (Seaside). The Order results in an annual revenue requirement increase of $42 million, excluding impacts related to Net Variable Power Costs. The Order was supported by a memorandum of understanding (MOU) entered into between PGE and key regulatory stakeholders. The MOU guided the recovery proceeding for Seaside, PGE's largest standalone battery storage project which has been serving customers since July 2025. Quarterly Dividend As previously announced, on October 22, 2025, the board of directors of Portland General Electric Company approved a quarterly common stock dividend of $0.525 per share. The quarterly dividend is payable on or before January 15, 2026 to shareholders of record at the close of business on December 22, 2025. 2025 Earnings Guidance PGE is reaffirming its estimate for full-year 2025 adjusted earnings guidance of $3.13 to $3.33 per diluted share based on the following assumptions:
Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Call and Webcast — October 31, 2025 PGE will host a conference call with financial analysts and investors on Friday, October 31, 2025, at 11 a.m. ET. The conference call will be webcast live on the PGE website at investors.portlandgeneral.com. A webcast replay will also be available on PGE's investor website "Events & Presentations" page beginning at 2 p.m. ET on October 31, 2025. Maria Pope, President and CEO; Joe Trpik, Senior Vice President of Finance and CFO; and Nick White, Manager of Investor Relations, will participate in the call. Management will respond to questions following formal comments. The attached unaudited condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income, balance sheets and statements of cash flows, as well as the supplemental operating statistics, are an integral part of this earnings release. Non-GAAP Financial Measures This press release contains certain non-GAAP measures, such as adjusted earnings, adjusted EPS and adjusted earnings guidance. These non-GAAP financial measures exclude significant items that are generally not related to our ongoing business activities, are infrequent in nature, or both. PGE believes that excluding the effects of these items provides a meaningful representation of the Company's comparative earnings per share and enables investors to evaluate the Company's ongoing operating financial performance. Management utilizes non-GAAP measures to assess the Company's current and forecasted performance, and for communications with shareholders, analysts and investors. Non-GAAP financial measures are supplementary information that should be considered in addition to, but not as a substitute for, the information prepared in accordance with GAAP. Items in the periods presented, which PGE believes impact the comparability of comparative earnings and do not represent ongoing operating financial performance, include the following:
Due to the forward-looking nature of PGE's non-GAAP adjusted earnings guidance, and the inherently unpredictable nature of items and events which could lead to the recognition of non-GAAP adjustments (such as, but not limited to, regulatory disallowances or extreme weather events), management is unable to estimate the occurrence or value of specific items requiring adjustment for future periods, which could potentially impact the Company's GAAP earnings. Therefore, management cannot provide a reconciliation of non-GAAP adjusted earnings per share guidance to the most comparable GAAP financial measure without unreasonable effort. For the same reasons, management is unable to address the probable significance of unavailable information. PGE's reconciliation of non-GAAP earnings for the quarter ended September 30, 2025 is below.
About Portland General Electric Company Portland General Electric (NYSE: POR) is an integrated energy company that generates, transmits and distributes electricity to over 950,000 customers serving an area of 1.9 million Oregonians. Since 1889, Portland General Electric (PGE) has been powering social progress, delivering safe, affordable, reliable and increasingly clean electricity while working to transform energy systems to meet evolving customer needs. PGE customers have set the standard for prioritizing clean energy with the No. 1 voluntary renewable energy program in the country. PGE was ranked the No. 1 utility in the 2024 Forrester U.S. Customer Experience Index and is committed to reducing emissions from its retail power supply by 80% by 2030 and 100% by 2040. In 2024, PGE employees, retirees and the PGE Foundation donated $5.5 million and volunteered nearly 23,000 hours to more than 480 nonprofit organizations. For more information visit www.portlandgeneral.com/news. Safe Harbor Statement Statements in this press release that relate to future plans, objectives, expectations, performance, events and the like may constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions as of the date of this report. The Company assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement as a result of new information, future events or other factors. Forward-looking statements include statements regarding the Company's full-year earnings guidance (including assumptions and expectations regarding annual retail deliveries, average hydro conditions, wind generation, normal thermal plant operations, operating and maintenance expense and depreciation and amortization expense) as well as other statements containing words such as "anticipates," "assumptions," "based on," "believes," "conditioned upon," "considers," "could," "estimates," "expects," "expected," "forecast," "goals," "intends," "needs," "plans," "predicts," "projects," "promises," "seeks," "should," "subject to," "targets," "will continue," "will likely result," or similar expressions. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including, without limitation: the timing or outcome of various legal and regulatory actions; new or revised governmental policies, executive orders, legislative action, and regulatory audits, investigations and actions with respect to allowed rates of return, financings, electricity pricing and price structures, acquisition and disposal of facilities and other assets, construction and operation of plant facilities, transmission of electricity, recovery of power costs, operating expenses, deferrals, timely recovery of costs, and capital investments, energy trading activities, tax credits and current or prospective wholesale and retail competition; changing customer expectations and choices that may reduce demand for PGE's services; natural or human-caused disasters and other risks, including, but not limited to, earthquake, flood, ice, drought, extreme heat, lightning, wind, fire, accidents, equipment failure, acts of terrorism, computer system outages, and other events that disrupt PGE operations, damage PGE facilities and systems, cause the release of harmful materials, cause fires, and subject the Company to liability; economic conditions that result in decreased demand for electricity, reduced revenue from sales of excess energy during periods of low wholesale market prices, impaired financial stability of vendors and service providers, and elevated levels of uncollectible customer accounts; uncertainties associated with energy demand to new data centers, including the concentration of data centers, and the ability to obtain regulatory approvals, environmental, and other permits to construct new facilities in a timely manner; operational factors affecting the Company's power generating and battery storage facilities, including forced outages, fires, unscheduled delays, environmental impacts, hydro and wind conditions, and disruption of fuel supply, any of which may cause the Company to incur repair costs or purchase replacement power at increased costs; delays in the supply chain and increased supply costs, failure to complete capital projects on schedule or within budget, failure to obtain permits, inability to complete negotiations on contracts for capital projects, failure of counterparties to perform under agreement, or the abandonment of capital projects, any of which could result in the Company's inability to recover project costs, or impact our competitive position, market share, revenues and project margins in material ways; default or nonperformance of counterparties from whom PGE purchases capacity or energy, that may require the purchase of replacement power and renewable attributes at increased costs; complications arising from PGE's jointly-owned plant, including ownership changes, adverse regulatory outcomes or legislative actions or operational failures; changes in, and compliance with, and general uncertainty surrounding environmental laws and policies, including those related to threatened and endangered species, fish, and wildfire; future laws, regulations, and proceedings that could increase the Company's costs of operating its thermal generating plants, or affect the operations of such plants by imposing requirements for additional emissions controls or significant emissions fees or taxes, particularly with respect to coal-fired generating facilities, in order to mitigate carbon dioxide, mercury, and other gas emissions; volatility in wholesale power and natural gas prices including but not limited to volatility caused by macroeconomic and international issues, that could require PGE to post additional collateral or issue additional letters of credit pursuant to power and natural gas purchase agreements; changes in the availability and price of wholesale power and fuels; changes in customer growth, or demographic patterns, including changes in load resulting in future transmission constraints, in PGE's service territory; capital market conditions, including availability of capital, volatility of interest rates and equity markets, reductions in demand for investment-grade commercial paper as well as changes in PGE's credit ratings, any of which could impact cost of capital and access to capital markets to support requirements for working capital, construction of capital projects, repayments of maturing debt, and stock-based compensation plans; trade tariffs, inflation and volatility in interest rates; the impacts of changes in the tax code, including tax rates, minimum tax rates, adjustments made to deferred tax assets and liabilities, and changes impacting the availability of and ability to transfer renewable tax credits; risks and uncertainties related to current or future All-Source RFP projects including, but not limited to, regulatory processes, transmission capabilities, system interconnections, inflationary impacts, supply chain constraints, supply cost increases, permitting and construction delays, available tax credits, counterparty credit risk and legislative uncertainty; the effects of climate change, whether global or local in nature; severe weather conditions and other natural phenomena, such as the greater size and prevalence of wildfires in Oregon in recent years, which could affect public safety, customers' demand for power, and PGE's financial health and ability and cost to procure adequate power and fuel supplies to serve its customers, access the wholesale energy market, or operate its generating facilities and transmission and distribution systems, and the Company's costs to maintain, repair, and replace such facilities and systems, and recovery of such costs; the effectiveness of PGE's risk management policies and procedures; ignitions caused by PGE assets or PGE's ability to effectively implement a Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) and de-energize its system in the event of heightened wildfire risk or implement effective system hardening programs; impacts from the lack of legislation limiting wildfire-related liability or providing a wildfire relief fund; cybersecurity attacks, data security breaches, physical attacks and security breaches, or other malicious acts internally or to third parties, that cause damage to the Company's generation, transmission or distribution facilities, information technology systems, or employees, or inhibit the capability of equipment or systems to function as designed or expected, or result in the release of confidential customer, vendor, employee or Company information; reputational damage from negative publicity, protests, fines, penalties and other negative consequences resulting in regulatory and/or legal actions; employee workforce factors, including potential strikes, work stoppages, transitions in senior management, and the ability to recruit and retain key employees and other talent and turnover due to macroeconomic trends; the impact of widespread health developments, and responses to such developments, which could materially and adversely affect demand for electric services, customers' ability to pay, supply chains, personnel, contract counterparties, liquidity, and financial markets; failure to achieve the Company's greenhouse gas emission goals or being perceived to have either failed to act responsibly with respect to the environment or effectively responded to legislative requirements concerning greenhouse gas emission reductions; acts of war, terrorism or civil disruption; changes in financial or regulatory accounting principles or policies imposed by governing bodies; and increases to operating costs that could result from changes to trade tariffs, rising inflation, and volatility in interest rates. As a result, actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Risks and uncertainties to which the Company are subject are further discussed in the reports that the Company has filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These reports are available through the EDGAR system free-of-charge on the SEC's website, www.sec.gov and on the Company's website, investors.portlandgeneral.com. Investors should not rely unduly on any forward-looking statements. POR
The following table indicates the number of heating and cooling degree-days for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024, along with 15-year averages based on weather data provided by the National Weather Service, as measured at Portland International Airport:
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