State PUC Rate Case Tracker (Oregon + Texas)

An independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by the Oregon Public Utility Commission or the Public Utility Commission of Texas. Both commissions publish their docket records as a matter of public record (Oregon: ORS Chapter 192; Texas: Texas Government Code Chapter 552, the "Open Records Act," cited on the PUCT's own privacy page). This Actor reads each commission's public docket-search system and reports what it returns, classified and reshaped into one schema.

Live per run, not a cache. Every run fetches both states' docket search systems fresh — a rate case moves through filing, hearing and order over months, and a snapshot taken once goes stale as soon as the next filing lands.

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Why this exists

Oregon's own "open dockets" search returns over 3,000 rows — but only a small fraction are actual rate cases. 62% are routine tariff "advice" filings and another 8% are miscellaneous administrative dockets, both technically "open" and neither a rate case a consultant or law firm cares about. Texas has no equivalent flag at all: its docket search returns every filing in a date window, mixing real company rate cases with recurring agency compliance buckets filed under names like "PUC RATE REGULATION" that are not a company at all. This Actor filters both down to genuine electric and gas rate/tariff proceedings — Oregon by its own docket-type code (UE, UG), Texas by a classifier built and tested against real filing captions — so you get a short, current list instead of thousands of rows to sort through by hand, or two different state portals to check separately.

What you get per row

Field	Meaning
state	OR or TX
commission	The full commission name
docket_number	The state's own docket/control number
case_type, case_type_label	ue/ug (Oregon) or rate_case (Texas), with a human-readable label
case_title	The docket's own filed caption
utility	The utility company that filed
filed_date	When the docket was opened, where the source provides it
order_date, final_order_number	Oregon only — populated once a final order issues; always null for a currently open docket, since an open docket by definition has none yet
filing_count_recent	Texas only — how many filings landed on this docket within the search window
is_closed	false for every Oregon row (this Actor only asks Oregon for OPEN dockets), null for Texas (its search carries no open/closed flag at all)
source_url	A direct link to the commission's own record, to verify
charged	Whether this row cost you anything
not_charged_reason	Why it did not, in plain English

The billing rule, stated plainly

One event: docket delivered, charged once per unique docket in the result. A docket that shows up again on a later run (because a new filing landed on it) is charged again — the same way a news feed charges again for a story that develops further, not a duplicate of the first charge.

Coverage — read this before you rely on it

v1 covers two states: Oregon (electric and gas rate cases, UE/UG) and Texas (electric and gas, keyword-classified). Texas Water utilities are deliberately excluded: several rate-case filers there are individuals doing business under a company name, and this Actor does not emit a docket if the filer's name could be a natural person's. Pennsylvania, Hawaii and other states are not yet covered — Hawaii's docket search in particular requires a full browser to render at all. SUMMARY.json in the run's key-value store reports exactly which states were requested and which were actually fetched on that run.

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Input

{
  "states": ["OR", "TX"]
}

Leave states empty to check both. Invalid or unsupported codes are ignored; if nothing valid is given, both supported states are checked.

Output

{
  "state": "OR",
  "commission": "Oregon Public Utility Commission",
  "docket_number": "UE 473",
  "case_type": "ue",
  "case_type_label": "electric rate/tariff case",
  "case_title": "PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY REQUEST FOR A GENERAL RATE REVISION",
  "utility": "PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY",
  "filed_date": "8/4/2026",
  "order_date": null,
  "final_order_number": null,
  "filing_count_recent": null,
  "is_closed": false,
  "source_url": "https://apps.puc.state.or.us/edockets/docket.asp?DocketID=25142",
  "charged": true,
  "not_charged_reason": ""
}

A SUMMARY.json lands in the key-value store with which states were requested and fetched, how many dockets were found, and a breakdown of charged vs. free rows.