Jan. 24 on The Story: Many Portlanders just received their first power bill after a rate hike from Portland General Electric and the arrival of some particularly frigid winter temperatures. As bad as that might be, PGE customers could soon be covering the cost for the outages that plagued the city during this month's winter storm: all the extra expense of fielding hundreds of staff, many of them working overtime and others coming in from elsewhere in the region, and conducting repairs to power poles, lines and electrical equipment. The company is expected to take an accounting of those costs, then ask state regulators for another rate hike to cover them. Between PGE and those higher rates stands a tiny consumer advocacy group called the Oregon Citizens' Utility Board that was formed to make sure price hikes are actually justified. Watch more The Story videos: http://bit.ly/watchTheStory Follow The Story on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheStoryKGW Follow The Story on Instagram: https://instagram.com/thestorykgw