Whois & Analysis for portlandgeneral.com

Portland General Electric (PGE) is a Fortune 1000 public utility based in Portland, Oregon.

It distributes electricity to customers in parts of Multnomah, Clackamas, Marion, Yamhill, Washington, and Polk counties - 44% of the inhabitants of Oregon.

Founded in 1888 as the Willamette Falls Electric Company, the company has been an independent company for most of its existence, though was briefly owned by the Houston-based Enron Corporation from 1997 until 2006 when Enron divested itself of PGE during its bankruptcy.

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Computer hardware is the physical parts or components of a computer, such as monitor, keyboard, computer data storage, graphic card, sound card, motherboard, and so on, all of which are tangible objects.

By contrast, software is instructions that can be stored and run by hardware.

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Energy conservation differs from efficient energy use, which refers to using less energy for a constant service.

The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is an investor-owned electric utility (IOU) with publicly traded stock that is headquartered in the Pacific Gas & Electric Building in San Francisco.

PG&E provides natural gas and electricity to most of the northern two-thirds of California, from Bakersfield almost to the Oregon border which represents 5.2 million households.

PG&E is overseen by the California Public Utilities Commission.

It is the leading subsidiary of the holding company PG&E Corporation which has a market capitalization of $29.37 billion.

It was founded by George H.

Roe during the period after California's Gold Rush and by 1984 was the United States "largest electric utility business".

In 1952 Charles M.

Coleman—who worked for PG&E's publicity department—completed his book entitled P.

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In other words, it is the answer to a question of some kind.

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