Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the Portland General Electric Company’s Second Quarter 2011 Earnings Results Conference Call. Today is Friday, August 5th, 2011. This call is being recorded, and as such all lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers’ remarks, there will be a question-and-answer period. (Operator Instructions) For opening remarks, I would like to turn the conference call over to Portland General Electric’s Director of Investor Relations, Mr. Bill Valach. Please go ahead, sir.

Thank you, Nancy and good morning, everyone. We’re very pleased that you’re able to join us today. Before we begin our discussion this morning, I’d like to make our customary statements regarding Portland General Electric’s written and oral disclosures and commentary. And there will be statements on this call that are not based on historical facts and as such constitute forward-looking statements under current law. These statements are subject to factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements made today. For a description of some of the factors that may occur that could cause such differences, the company requests that you read our most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Qs. The Form 10-Q for the second quarter of 2011 was available this morning at our website portlandgeneral.com. The company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise and this Safe Harbor statement should be incorporated as part of any transcript of this call. Portland General Electric’s second quarter earnings were released before the market opened today, and the release is available at portlandgeneral.com. Leading our discussion today are Jim Piro, President and CEO, and Maria Pope, Senior Vice President of Finance, CFO and Treasurer. Jim will begin today’s presentation by providing a general overview of the quarter’s results and our strategic capital projects. Then, Maria will provide more detail around the quarterly results and key regulatory proceedings. Following prepared remarks, we will then open the lines up for your questions. And I would like to turn the call over to Jim.

Thank you, Bill. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Welcome to Portland General Electric’s 2011 second quarter earnings call. We delivered strong operations during the second quarter. With a continued increase in energy received from hydro resources, combined with low cost purchase power, we were able to effectively manage our power supply and economic we displayed a significant amount of our thermal generation. I’m proud of the excellent work accomplished during the scheduled maintenance outages at two of our thermal plants. Our T&D system performed well and we continue to maintain high levels of customer satisfactions. In addition to strong operations, I’m very pleased with the significant progress we have made on regulatory and legal matters. We have achieved a positive resolution concerning Senate Bill 408. We made major progress towards implementing our Boardman 2020 plan. And finally, I’m pleased with the progress that PGE, the Sierra Club and other environmental groups have made towards resolving a lawsuit related to Boardman filed in 2008. The positive outcomes on these matters reflect a constructive process between PGE, customer groups, key stakeholders and other utilities and the results will create value for our customers and shareholders. For the second quarter 2011, PGE’s net income was $22 million or $0.29 per diluted share compared to $24 million or $0.32 per diluted share for the second quarter 2010. We are reaffirming our full-year 2011 earnings guidance of $1.90 to $2.05 per diluted share. Now I will provide you an update on the economic outlook in our operating area. We continue to experience customer growth with the addition of 3,000 new customers since the second quarter of 2010. Oregon’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rates continue to decline and for June, it was 9.4% for the state and 8.8% for the Portland metro area. This…

Good morning. Thank you, Jim. Today I’ll cover financial results for the quarter, review our operating performance, provide an update on key regulatory items and concludes with the liquidity and financing. Second quarter 2011 net income was $22 million or $0.29 per diluted share, compared to $24 million or $0.32 per diluted share for the second quarter of 2010. Total operating revenues for the second quarter were $411 million, a decrease of $4 from the second quarter of 2010. The decrease resulted from a $9 million decrease in wholesale sales offsets by an increase in retail and other revenues. Retail revenues were up 1% or $4 million from the second quarter of 2010. Due to a 3% increase in retail energy deliveries, which was driven by a combination of cooler and normal temperatures and decreased – increased demand from the industrial sector. And a $9 million increase in average retail prices, largely from the 3.9% increase authorized as part of the 2011 General Rate Case. These are offsets by $18 million decrease for rest of the power cost adjustment mechanism or PCAM, decoupling and SB 408 compared with a year ago. And seasonally cool weather, led to higher energy deliveries to our residential customers. We estimated that weather resulted in a positive impact of about $0.08 per share in the quarter compared to $0.03 per share in the second quarter of 2010. Whether also had an impact on purchased power and fuel expense, which decreased 9% quarter-over-quarter. PGE received an increased amount of energy from PGE owned and contracted hydro resources as River run off is currently at a 130% of normal. With abundant hydro in the Northwest, wholesale market prices are low. As such, we economically did place a significant amount of our thermal generation and increased market purchases.…

Thank you, Maria. Second quarter 2011 performance reflects our focus on operational excellence, including the strong power supply operation, successful execution of extensive upgrades at two of our thermal plants, customer satisfaction, and prudent management of our operating costs. We are moving forward with implementation of our Boardman 2020 plan as well as our IRP action plans. And we will continue to position the company for our future investment opportunities that deliver value to our customers and a comparative return for our shareholders. Operator, we would now like to open the call for questions.

Thank you, sir. (Operator Instructions). And we’ll take the first question from Neil Mehta from Goldman Sachs. Neil Mehta – Goldman Sachs: Good morning.

Good morning, Neil. Neil Mehta – Goldman Sachs: Jim, Maria, just want to start off on the rate case timing. When do you expect to file your next rate case?

Neil that we continue to look at our year, I think right now our plan would be not to file our rate case to probably for the 2014 test year. So we’d probably file in early 2013. That’s just based on our base – our current projections assuming you know load continues to grow in the region that we don’t see a backslide in the economy. Neil Mehta – Goldman Sachs: Got it. So Jim in the absence of rate increases, how do you grow earnings in 2012 and 2013?

Well in terms of our earnings, that’s really depended on a number of factors. First, it’s load growth in the region. Secondly, our investment in rate base and those will continue as we get clarity on our renewable or in our RFP processes. So you know, we will continue to look for investment opportunities to grow our earnings and that’s really the model to do that. Maria, do you want to add anything to that?

Sure, as we look carefully the next couple of years, the backdrop I think that we were pleased with our 2011 rate case and the recoveries that we achieved through that. And then in the Oregon, as Jim talked about in his prepared remarks, we are seeing load growth. And in particular, the Intel expansions as well as suppliers to Intel are growing very rapidly. We’re seeing construction growth actually in the trade’s area up about 6.8% versus a year ago. So we have good confidence in our ability to be able to continue to grow earnings to investor or our customers over the next couple of years and prudently manage our rates as we then add capital projects with the renewable and capacity projects probably first and then base load energy after that should we win the RFPs. And if that would probably trigger be more of a catalyst for our next rate case than concerns over earnings. Neil Mehta – Goldman Sachs: Got it, Maria. And do you think you can keep O&M below the demand growth?

You know, if you look at our track record over the last couple of years, particularly on the A&G side, we’ve really done a good job of managing our O&M. And the increase that you see in our production area most recently is a result of the maintenance outages, that Jim spoke about it, both the Coyote and the Boardman facilities, which were well reflected in customer prices and then also an outage that took place at the Colstrip plants. So we have good confidence. We’re doing a number of things to be more cost effective than efficient throughout the company and leverage our investments in IT technology for the benefit of customers. Neil Mehta – Goldman Sachs: All right. And then my last question is how should we think about the second half of 2011? What are the key drivers positives and negatives to get to your guidance?

Well a couple of things in that. First of all, we need to continue to see – the economy continue to grow and it’s a not a back step in that and all indications are that that looks like it’s going to occur. Secondly, our power plants need to continue to operate well. We’re now kind of get and see into the high growth season in the end of the run off, so now it’s really a matter of our power plants continue to operate well and third, hopefully, no storms or major incidences on the T&D side. Neil Mehta – Goldman Sachs: Got it. Thank you very much.

We’ll take the next question from Sarah Akers from Wells Fargo. Sarah Akers – Wells Fargo: Hey, good morning.

Good morning, Sarah. Sarah Akers – Wells Fargo: Can you remind us, which customer class is the decoupling mechanism applied still?

It applies to our residential and very small commercial customers. Sarah Akers – Wells Fargo: Okay.

And it’s based on use for customer calculation and then for that the small commercial, it’s based on loss revenue calculation about 60% of our customers qualify under the decoupling mechanism. Sarah Akers – Wells Fargo: Okay. So if it’s the – just per use for customer yield still benefit from customer growth that will flow through?

Yeah. We still benefit for customer growth and the use for customers on weather adjusted basis. So we have – we just – the actual usage for weather and then now, we compare that to the last rate case and that’s the majority of where the decoupling goes through. Sarah Akers – Wells Fargo: Right.

And do you think, the thing that effects that the most is energy efficiency. So certain customers put more energy efficiency measures in our – maybe take greater conservation measures that’s what they use for customer would go down and to the extent they include new appliances and new uses – use for customer would go up. That is the decoupling normalizes for us. Sarah Akers – Wells Fargo: Great and then I just want to make sure, if I heard this correctly in terms of when we will get clarity on equity and financing needs? You will probably wait until all three RFPs wrapped up, before you have a good sense of timing of equity and things of that nature, is that correct?

I don’t take all three. But at least, we need to get the first one done on the capacity and if we’re successful there. Then we will have to look at equity need that where the markets are. That’s not a big project for the company, but I will take one at a time probably and then look at each and how best to finance them, as we set ourselves for the next RFP process. Sarah Akers – Wells Fargo: Great, thanks a lot.

Next – pardon me. The next question comes from Andrew Wiesel from Macquarie Capital. Andrew Wiesel – Macquarie Capital: Hi, good morning. On the three RFPs, can you remind us the timing of when you expect to file the RFPs and how the decisions be finalized?

Okay. On the first RFP, the capacity of RFP that is right now before the commission for a decision. We had to briefing I think last week and we’re now trying to resolve a few issues that were raised in that open proceedings before the commission. Once the commission issued the decision, we would immediately start the RFP for capacity and we would like to complete that by end of this year that’s our hope. But it really depends on the commission’s decision in terms of when that whole process starts. But that would be first decision and again, we would like to get that done by the end of 2012, early 2013. To the extent, we’re the successful winner of the bid. We will start construction immediately and it probably takes us about two years to construct that project. The other two bidding, bids will start later this year or early next year depending on when we can line up our choices for competitive bidding or self-build options. We likely will complete those by late 2012 or early 2013. Though we’re in the process of just getting one done at a time, we want to try and do this in a good sequence, so we don’t want to overburden our staff work to through the process and so that’s our current plan at this point. Andrew Wiesel – Macquarie Capital: All right, great. And then on this 10 year local economies doing fairly well relative to the country at least, should there be a meaningful slowdown, how much of risk of this RFP process could be pushed back, any kind of meaningful amount of time?

Well. As you know, we are a short utility. We didn’t – don’t have enough generation to meet our retail load and we have a significant capacity deficit as well as an energy deficit and we really need to address that. So this isn’t necessary to meet additional low growth, but this is to fill the hole that we currently have as hydro contracts go away and we’ve been relying on the market and the markets starting to get not as robust as it used to be. So the economy has a minimal impact on these decisions because of the significant deficit we have on both the capacity side as well as the energy side. Andrew Wiesel – Macquarie Capital: Terrific. Thank you very much.

We’ll go next to Mike (inaudible) from D. A. Davidson.

Hi good morning, guys. I wanted to come back to the earlier question on your O&M. Maria; you said that a large chuck of the increase in this quarter was tied to the plant maintenance outages. Is that correct?

Yes.

All right. Does it reflect the full affect that – of the maintenance outages or would that be stretching into the future quarters as well?

No, it reflects full amount. And in the first quarter, we had about $42 million of production O&M and in the second quarter, it was about $55 million. So you can see the increase. Last year, we were at about $46 million during the same period when we had less maintenance at the facilities. So we expect to go more into a steady state non-maintenance further expense period.

Okay. And can you remind us if you have other maintenance outages coming up in the next 18 months or so?

Well, we have the next – in the next 18 months we do because we will probably take maintenance outages next spring, also related to the facilities, but not as extensive as the significant upgrades that we made at both Boardman and in particular, Coyote this past spring.

A couple of things just to – a couple things to note on that. These maintenance outages were consistent with what we planned in the rate case. And so we did forecast that cost for these maintenance outages in the rate case. Second thing as we look at maintenance outages in 2012, those get reflected in our – let’s call it our AUT filing. And so the extend of shorter or longer, those get back into our power cost as we plan for next June.

All right. Thank you.

Thanks, Mike.

We’ll move next to Steven Gambuzza from Longbow Capital. Steven Gambuzza – Longbow Capital: Good morning.

Good morning, Steve.

Good morning, Steve. Steven Gambuzza – Longbow Capital: Hi, can you hear me?

Yep. Steven Gambuzza – Longbow Capital: Okay. Sorry, I’m sorry if you’ve answered this already, I just wanted to ask about the $8 million approval for the peaking, did you mentioned earlier?

Sure, yeah. So, let me... Steven Gambuzza – Longbow Capital: Just, was that related to your – you took an accrual for what the expected impact of power cost is going to be for the second half of the year?

It was $12 million total for the second half of the year, and $8 million for the second quarter. As we look at the power cost were very significant in the first quarter, and we kept most of that in terms of the P&L. When he hit over the debt band of $15 million and then the ROE at 11%, we then began a 90/10 sharing with customers. And so in the first quarter, we expected that our refund would be for that about $4 million and then $8 million in the second quarter for a year-to-date total of $12. Steven Gambuzza – Longbow Capital: Okay, I’m sorry. Is that for you – in the second quarter you booked $4 million – sorry $8 million related to the second quarter, and then an additional $4 million for you anticipate will be the refund for the rest of the year?

Yes, exactly, no, excuse me, no; it’s the $4 million in the first quarter, $8 million in the second quarter and $12 million year-to-date. Steven Gambuzza – Longbow Capital: Okay, so you booked – okay, you haven’t booked anything in anticipation of what you think is going to happen in the second half?

No, we don’t do that. What we do is we do look at the full year expectation around earnings and make an adjustment with regards to what we expect to refund based on that 11% ROE. Steven Gambuzza – Longbow Capital: Okay, thank you very much.

Yeah. Steven Gambuzza – Longbow Capital: Just one final question. You mentioned that the RFP for the peaker is before the commission, you hope to have it by the end of the year and then a two year construction period, so that would – that would be in service near the end of ‘13. Is – would you expect that would be the first resources that would be bought in the rate base? Or is it possible that one of the renewable RFPs should come in before that?

I think right now our current view is the capacity resources would be the first one to come in. The extended renewable through a bidding process was available, didn’t have to be constructed and then we would put it in place through the renewable energy adjustment clause and we track that in separately. That’s the nice thing about the renewable. They can be tracked in separately, but then year – they come into service. So a lot of that will depend on what we get out of the renewable RFP, whether it’s just construction or its maybe a project that’s bid in that’s already constructed. Steven Gambuzza – Longbow Capital: Okay. Thanks very much.

(Operator Instructions).

Okay and I think that’s it. Well thank you very much for participating in the call. In closing, we continue to focus on our financial objectives that support our core utility business, earning a more competitive return on equity and a strong balance sheet to support our investment grade credit ratings. Thanks so much for participation on the call. And we look forward to our future call in the third quarter. Thanks a lot

That does conclude today’s presentation. Thank you for your participation.