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Risk Management
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2026
Price Risk Management [Abstract]  
Risk Management

NOTE 5: RISK MANAGEMENT

PGE participates in the wholesale marketplace to balance its supply of power, which consists of its own generation combined with wholesale market transactions, to meet the needs of its retail customers, manage risk, and administer the Company’s long-term wholesale contracts. Wholesale market transactions include purchases and sales of both power and fuel resulting from economic dispatch decisions with respect to Company-owned generation resources. The Company also performs wholesale market services for third parties in the region and purchases and sells environmental credits in the wholesale marketplace. As a result of this ongoing business activity, PGE is exposed to commodity price risk and foreign currency exchange rate risk, from which changes in prices and/or rates may affect the Company’s financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

PGE utilizes derivative instruments to manage its exposure to commodity price risk and foreign exchange rate risk in order to reduce volatility in NVPC for its retail customers. Such derivative instruments, recorded at fair value on the condensed consolidated balance sheets, may include forwards, futures, swaps, and options contracts for electricity, natural gas, and foreign currency, with changes in fair value recorded in the condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income. In accordance with ratemaking and cost recovery processes authorized by the OPUC, PGE recognizes a regulatory asset or liability to defer the gains and losses from derivative activity until settlement of the associated derivative instrument. The Company may designate certain derivative instruments as cash flow hedges or may use derivative instruments as economic hedges. PGE does not intend to engage in trading activities for non-retail purposes.

PGE’s Assets and Liabilities from price risk management activities consist of the following (in millions):

 

 

 

June 30, 2026

 

 

December 31, 2025

 

Current assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commodity contracts:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electricity

 

$

39

 

 

$

29

 

Natural gas

 

 

1

 

 

 

3

 

Total current derivative assets (1)

 

 

40

 

 

 

32

 

Noncurrent assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commodity contracts:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electricity

 

 

5

 

 

 

1

 

Natural gas

 

 

1

 

 

 

—

 

Total noncurrent derivative assets (1)

 

 

6

 

 

 

1

 

Total derivative assets (2)

 

$

46

 

 

$

33

 

Current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commodity contracts:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electricity

 

$

17

 

 

$

19

 

Natural gas

 

 

123

 

 

 

139

 

Total current derivative liabilities

 

 

140

 

 

 

158

 

Noncurrent liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Commodity contracts:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electricity

 

 

35

 

 

 

31

 

Natural gas

 

 

31

 

 

 

25

 

Total noncurrent derivative liabilities

 

 

66

 

 

 

56

 

Total derivative liabilities (2)

 

$

206

 

 

$

214

 

 

(1) Total current derivative assets are included in Other current assets, and Total noncurrent derivative assets are included in Other noncurrent assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.

(2) As of June 30, 2026 and December 31, 2025, no commodity derivative assets or liabilities were designated as hedging instruments.

PGE’s net volumes related to its Assets and Liabilities from price risk management activities resulting from its derivative transactions, which are expected to deliver or settle at various dates through 2035 were as follows (in millions):

 

 

 

June 30, 2026

 

December 31, 2025

Commodity contracts:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electricity

 

 

—

 

 

MWhs

 

 

1

 

 

MWhs

Natural gas

 

 

236

 

 

Decatherms

 

 

224

 

 

Decatherms

Foreign currency

 

$

3

 

 

Canadian

 

$

9

 

 

Canadian

 

PGE has elected to report positive and negative exposures resulting from derivative instruments pursuant to agreements that meet the definition of a master netting arrangement gross on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. In the case of default on, or termination of, any contract under the master netting arrangements, such agreements provide for the net settlement of all related contractual obligations with a given counterparty through a single payment. These types of transactions may include non-derivative instruments, derivatives qualifying for scope exceptions, receivables and payables arising from settled positions, and other forms of non-cash collateral, such as letters of credit. As of June 30, 2026, gross amounts included as Price risk management liabilities subject to master netting agreements were $37 million, entirely for natural gas, for which PGE has posted $13 million collateral. As of December 31, 2025, gross amounts included as Price risk management liabilities subject to master netting agreements were $41 million, all of which was for natural gas, for which PGE had posted $14 million collateral.

Net realized and unrealized losses (gains) on derivative transactions not designated as hedging instruments are classified in Revenues, net or Purchased power and fuel, as applicable, in the condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income and were as follows (in millions):

 

 

 

Three Months Ended June 30,

 

 

Six Months Ended June 30,

 

 

 

2026

 

 

2025

 

 

2026

 

 

2025

 

Commodity contracts:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electricity

 

$

(23

)

 

$

2

 

 

$

(38

)

 

$

7

 

Natural Gas

 

 

6

 

 

 

31

 

 

 

103

 

 

 

45

 

Foreign currency exchange

 

 

—

 

 

 

(1

)

 

 

—

 

 

 

(1

)

 

Net unrealized and certain net realized losses/(gains) presented in the table above are offset within the condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income by the effects of regulatory accounting. Of the net amounts recognized in Net income for the three-month periods ended June 30, 2026 and 2025, net gains of $22 million and $16 million, respectively, have been offset. Net gains of $14 million and $62 million have been offset for the six-month periods ended June 30, 2026 and 2025, respectively.

Assuming no changes in market prices and interest rates, the following table indicates the year in which the net unrealized loss recorded as of June 30, 2026 related to PGE’s derivative activities would become realized as a result of the settlement of the underlying derivative instrument (in millions):

 

 

 

2026

 

 

2027

 

 

2028

 

 

2029

 

 

2030

 

 

Thereafter

 

 

Total

 

Commodity contracts:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Electricity

 

$

(24

)

 

$

(1

)

 

$

5

 

 

$

4

 

 

$

4

 

 

$

20

 

 

$

8

 

Natural gas

 

 

76

 

 

 

64

 

 

 

8

 

 

 

4

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

—

 

 

 

152

 

Net unrealized loss

 

$

52

 

 

$

63

 

 

$

13

 

 

$

8

 

 

$

4

 

 

$

20

 

 

$

160

 

 

PGE’s secured and unsecured debt is currently rated at investment grade by Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s) and S&P Global Ratings (S&P). Should Moody’s or S&P reduce their rating on the Company’s unsecured debt to below investment grade, PGE could be subject to requests by certain wholesale counterparties to post additional performance assurance collateral, in the form of cash or letters of credit, based on total portfolio positions with each of those counterparties. Certain other counterparties would have the right to terminate their agreements with the Company.

The aggregate fair value of derivative instruments with credit-risk-related contingent features that were in a liability position as of June 30, 2026 was $205 million, for which PGE has posted $68 million in collateral, consisting of $12 million of letters of credit and $56 million of cash. If the credit-risk-related contingent features underlying these agreements were triggered at June 30, 2026, the cash requirement to either post as collateral or settle the instruments immediately would have been $144 million. As of June 30, 2026, PGE had no cash collateral posted for derivative instruments with no credit-risk-related contingent features. Cash collateral for derivative instruments is classified as Margin deposits included in Other current assets on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets.

As of June 30, 2026, PGE held from counterparties $34 million in collateral, consisting $5 million of letters of credit and $29 million of cash. The obligation to return cash collateral held for derivative instruments is included in Accrued expenses and other current liabilities on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets.

PGE is exposed to credit risk in its commodity price risk management activities related to potential nonperformance by counterparties. Credit risk may be concentrated to the extent the Company’s counterparties have similar economic, industry or other characteristics and due to direct or indirect relationships among the counterparties. PGE manages the risk of counterparty default according to its credit policies by performing financial credit reviews, setting limits and monitoring exposures, and requiring collateral (in the form of cash, letters of credit, and guarantees) when needed. The Company also uses standardized enabling agreements and, in certain cases, master netting agreements, which allow for the netting of positive and negative exposures under multiple agreements with counterparties.

See Note 4, Fair Value of Financial Instruments, for additional information concerning the determination of fair value for the Company’s Assets and Liabilities from price risk management activities