Current issues and projects
As a public utility, our business is your business. Keep up to date on issues and projects
affecting the Eugene Water & Electric Board and its 86,000 electric, water and steam customers.
Learn more about EWEB's plans to build a new electric and water operations center in West Eugene.
What will happen to any riverfront property that is vacated when EWEB constructs a new operations center in west Eugene?
EWEB's Integrated Electric Resource Plan guides decisions about which electric energy
resources to acquire to meet customers' needs.
EWEB recently approved the purchase of power from a biomass energy generation facility planned for construction
at the Seneca wood-products facility in northwest Eugene.
Faced with rising costs, an eroding customer base and an inefficient distribution system,
EWEB is beginning the process of shutting down its steam utility.
EWEB is seeking a new federal license to operate its Carmen-Smith Hydroelectric Project on the
upper McKenzie River.
EWEB is embarking on a campaign to step up its investment in the water system, parts of which date back to
the early days of the utility's founding in 1911.
Neighbors and interested community members participated in a year-long public engagement process
aimed at identifying a solution to water service needs in the Spring Boulevard area.
EWEB is building a new boat landing that will be constructed near Leaburg Lake as one of the conditions
of the utility's new operating license for the Leaburg/Walterville hydroelectric project.
EWEB is working to alert the public to a very disturbing trend – the theft of copper from the electric
distribution system for its value as scrap metal.