On March 16, 2023, Portland General Electric Company announced the appointment of Benjamin Felton as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer effective April 3, 2023. Mr. Felton, age 53, served as Senior Vice President of Energy Supply at DTE Energy from 2019 to present, where he was accountable for DTE's non-nuclear generation and fuel supply. Prior to that, Mr. Felton served as a Senior Vice President, Electric Operations for the Northern Indiana Public Service Company, a subsidiary of NiSource, from 2018 to 2019, where he was responsible for generation, transmission and distribution, dispatch operations, transmission operations, planning and scheduling, fleet, warehouse, training, and safety.

He also served as the Vice President for Power Delivery for the Northern Indiana Public Service Company from 2015 to 2018. Mr. Felton worked at CMS Energy Corp. from 1992 to 2015, in positions of increasing responsibility, last serving as the Executive Director of Electric System Operations and Maintenance.