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Stock-based Compensation Expense Restricted and Performance Stock Unit activity (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2020
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Grants in Period, Net of Forfeitures [Abstract] |
Share-based Payment Arrangement, Restricted Stock Unit, Activity [Table Text Block] | Pursuant to the Portland General Electric Company Stock Incentive Plan as amended and restated effective February 13, 2018 (the Plan), the Company may grant a variety of equity-based awards, including restricted stock units (RSUs) with time-based vesting conditions (time-based RSUs) and performance-based vesting conditions (performance-based RSUs), to non-employee directors, officers, or certain key employees. RSU activity is summarized in the following table:
| Units |  | Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value
Nonvested units as of December 31, 2017 | 399,376 |  |  | $ | 37.98 |
Granted | 198,864 |  |  | 37.99 |
Forfeited | (8,556) |  |  | 39.73 |
Vested | (160,771) |  |  | 36.77 |
Nonvested units of December 31, 2018 | 428,913 |  |  | 38.43 |
Granted | 210,555 |  |  | 49.06 |
Forfeited | (9,041) |  |  | 41.68 |
Vested | (167,037) |  |  | 37.52 |
Nonvested units as of December 31, 2019 | 463,390 |  |  | 43.52 |
Granted | 202,883 |  |  | 56.45 |
Forfeited | (17,341) |  |  | 50.27 |
Vested | (170,536) |  |  | 45.67 |
Nonvested units as of December 31, 2020 | 478,396 |  |  | 48.00 |
Schedule of Share-based Payment Award, Stock Options, Valuation Assumptions [Table Text Block] | with the following weighted average assumptions:
| 2020 |  | 2019 |  | 2018
Risk-free interest rate |  |  | 1.4 | % |  |  |  | 2.5 | % |  |  |  | 2.4 | %
Expected term (in years) |  |  | 2.9 |  |  |  | 3.0 |  |  |  | 3.0
Volatility | 13.5 | % | - | 97.3 | % |  | 14.8 | % | - | 74.5 | % |  | 14.7 | % | - | 21.8 | %

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of the significant assumptions used during the year to estimate the fair value of stock options, including, but not limited to: (a) expected term of share options and similar instruments, (b) expected volatility of the entity's shares, (c) expected dividends, (d) risk-free rate(s), and (e) discount for post-vesting restrictions. + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 718 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (f)(2) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=120381028&loc=d3e5070-113901 + Details
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