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Risk Management (Notes)
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2024
Price Risk Management [Abstract]  
RISK MANAGEMENT RISK MANAGEMENT
PGE participates in the wholesale marketplace to balance its supply of power, which consists of its own generation combined with wholesale market transactions, to meet the needs of its retail customers, manage risk, and administer the Company’s long-term wholesale contracts. Wholesale market transactions include purchases and sales of both power and fuel resulting from economic dispatch decisions with respect to Company-owned generation resources. The Company also performs portfolio management and wholesale market services for third parties in the region. As a result of this ongoing business activity, PGE is exposed to commodity price risk and foreign currency exchange rate risk, from which changes in prices and/or rates may affect the Company’s financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.

PGE utilizes derivative instruments to manage its exposure to commodity price risk and foreign exchange rate risk in order to reduce volatility in NVPC for its retail customers. Such derivative instruments, recorded at fair value on the condensed consolidated balance sheets, may include forwards, futures, swaps, and options contracts for electricity, natural gas, and foreign currency, with changes in fair value recorded in the condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income. In accordance with ratemaking and cost recovery processes authorized by the OPUC, PGE recognizes a regulatory asset or liability to defer the gains and losses from derivative activity until settlement of the associated derivative instrument. The Company may designate certain derivative instruments as cash flow hedges or may use derivative instruments as economic hedges. PGE does not intend to engage in trading activities for non-retail purposes.
PGE’s Assets and Liabilities from price risk management activities consist of the following (in millions):
June 30, 2024December 31, 2023
Current assets:
Commodity contracts:
Electricity$24 $13 
Natural gas13 
Total current derivative assets (1)
37 22 
Noncurrent assets:
Commodity contracts:
Electricity
Natural gas
Total noncurrent derivative assets (1)
10 11 
Total derivative assets (2)
$47 $33 
Current liabilities:
Commodity contracts:
Electricity$52 $51 
Natural gas90 113 
Total current derivative liabilities142 164 
Noncurrent liabilities:
Commodity contracts:
Electricity16 22 
Natural gas42 53 
Total noncurrent derivative liabilities58 75 
Total derivative liabilities (2)
$200 $239 
(1) Total current derivative assets are included in Other current assets, and Total noncurrent derivative assets are included in Other noncurrent assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
(2) As of June 30, 2024 and December 31, 2023, no derivative assets or liabilities were designated as hedging instruments.

PGE’s net volumes related to its Assets and Liabilities from price risk management activities resulting from its derivative transactions, which are expected to deliver or settle at various dates through 2035, were as follows (in millions):
June 30, 2024December 31, 2023
Commodity contracts:
ElectricityMWhsMWhs
Natural gas193 Decatherms213 Decatherms
Foreign currency$25 Canadian$20 Canadian
PGE has elected to report positive and negative exposures resulting from derivative instruments pursuant to agreements that meet the definition of a master netting arrangement gross on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. In the case of default on, or termination of, any contract under the master netting arrangements, such agreements provide for the net settlement of all related contractual obligations with a given counterparty through a single payment. These types of transactions may include non-derivative instruments, derivatives qualifying for scope exceptions, receivables and payables arising from settled positions, and other forms of non-cash collateral, such as letters of credit. As of June 30, 2024, gross amounts included as Price risk management liabilities subject to master netting agreements were $29 million, comprised of $23 million for natural gas and $6 million for electricity, for which PGE has posted no collateral. As of December 31, 2023, gross amounts included as Price risk
management liabilities subject to master netting agreements were $28 million, for which PGE had posted $1 million collateral. Of the gross amounts recognized as of December 31, 2023, $25 million was for natural gas and $3 million was for electricity.

Net realized and unrealized losses (gains) on derivative transactions not designated as hedging instruments are classified in Revenues, net or Purchased power and fuel, as applicable, in the condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income and were as follows (in millions):
Three Months Ended June 30, Six Months Ended June 30,
2024202320242023
Commodity contracts:
Electricity$(11)$88 $(30)$53 
Natural Gas65 20 197 

Net unrealized and certain net realized losses/(gains) presented in the table above are offset within the condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income by the effects of regulatory accounting. Of the net amounts recognized in Net income for the three-month periods ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, net gains of $5 million and net losses of $157 million, respectively, have been offset. Net gains of $54 million and net losses of $363 million have been offset for the six-month periods ended June 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

Assuming no changes in market prices and interest rates, the following table indicates the year in which the net unrealized loss/(gain) recorded as of June 30, 2024 related to PGE’s derivative activities would become realized as a result of the settlement of the underlying derivative instrument (in millions):
20242025202620272028ThereafterTotal
Commodity contracts:
Electricity$19 $18 $(1)$(1)$— $$36 
Natural gas45 46 24 — — 117 
Net unrealized loss/(gain)$64 $64 $23 $$— $$153 

PGE’s secured and unsecured debt is currently rated at investment grade by Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s) and S&P Global Ratings (S&P). Should Moody’s or S&P reduce their rating on the Company’s unsecured debt to below investment grade, PGE could be subject to requests by certain wholesale counterparties to post additional performance assurance collateral, in the form of cash or letters of credit, based on total portfolio positions with each of those counterparties. Certain other counterparties would have the right to terminate their agreements with the Company.

The aggregate fair value of derivative instruments with credit-risk-related contingent features that were in a liability position as of June 30, 2024 was $189 million, for which PGE has posted $56 million in collateral, consisting of $11 million of letters of credit and $45 million of cash. If the credit-risk-related contingent features underlying these agreements were triggered at June 30, 2024, the cash requirement to either post as collateral or settle the instruments immediately would have been $131 million. As of June 30, 2024, PGE had no cash collateral posted for derivative instruments with no credit-risk-related contingent features. Cash collateral for derivative instruments is classified as Margin deposits included in Other current assets on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets.

As of June 30, 2024, PGE held from counterparties $10 million in collateral, consisting of $5 million of letters of credit and $5 million of cash. The obligation to return cash collateral held for derivative instruments is included in Accrued expenses and other current liabilities on the Company’s condensed consolidated balance sheets.
PGE is exposed to credit risk in its commodity price risk management activities related to potential nonperformance by counterparties. Credit risk may be concentrated to the extent the Company’s counterparties have similar economic, industry or other characteristics and due to direct or indirect relationships among the counterparties. PGE manages the risk of counterparty default according to its credit policies by performing financial credit reviews, setting limits and monitoring exposures, and requiring collateral (in the form of cash, letters of credit, and guarantees) when needed. The Company also uses standardized enabling agreements and, in certain cases, master netting agreements, which allow for the netting of positive and negative exposures under multiple agreements with counterparties.
See Note 4, Fair Value of Financial Instruments, for additional information concerning the determination of fair value for the Company’s Assets and Liabilities from price risk management activities.