colorado public utilities commission
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Colorado Energy Plan will benefit communities, economy and environment
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Colorado’s largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, has a plan to dramatically shift the way we produce energy by increasing the amount of renewable energy produced right here in the Centennial State. Doing so would deliver substantial economic and environmental benefits to Colorado residents in the form of new jobs, increased revenue for communities, and lower…
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Xcel ratepayers would get a bum deal under Colorado Energy Plan
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Late last summer, and with great fanfare, Xcel Energy announced its proposal to close the Comanche I & II power units in Pueblo a decade ahead of schedule. They offered as replacement the euphemistically titled “Colorado Energy Plan” (CEP), a massive $2.5 billion fuel-switching scheme to move its Colorado customers away from baseload, reliable hydrocarbons…
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Kudos to Cory Gardner for defending rural Colorado’s renewable-energy economy
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As a county commissioner, it is my duty to protect jobs and investments that drive our local economy. I am glad to see that this is also a priority for Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner. Sen. Gardner, along with six Republican colleagues, recently submitted a letter to President Trump requesting a narrow tariff exclusion for…
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SLOAN | A federal tax cut begets — at last — a local utility rate cut
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120 days may seem interminable, at times, to those caught up in the day-to-day grind of the Colorado legislative session, but a great deal happens in those mere four months and enough is packed into that short time to allow some pretty important items to slip past the tripwires of the fourth estate more or…
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Regulators wisely nudge Colorado toward greater energy efficiency
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Thanks to a decision on April 11 from state electricity regulators, Xcel Energy now has stronger energy efficiency goals that will save Coloradans roughly $165 million between 2019 and 2023 while also lowering pollution from coal and gas plants. The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) directed Xcel, Colorado’s largest electric utility, to raise their energy efficiency…
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Xcel’s plan to shutter 2 Colorado coal-fired plants called ‘momentous’
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A Colorado Public Utilities Commission hearing Thursday on Xcel Energy’s plan to close coal-fired plants and boost renewable energy drew an overflow crowd that included a mother with a babe in arms, a middle school student, a math professor, a former Peace Corps worker and representatives of farmers and rural areas-all in favor of the…
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Beware of those savings — they’ll cost you, Pueblo learns
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It’s not like there’s any love lost between Rapid City, S.D.-based Black Hills Energy and the city of Pueblo, to which the investor-owned public utility provides power. The city’s elected leadership, including its City Council and legislative delegation, long have been at odds with Black Hills over its repeated rate hikes in recent years. The…
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Cleaning up Colorado’s electricity: a win-win-win for consumers, utilities and communities
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Gov. John Hickenlooper’s July 11 Executive Order puts Colorado on the path to meet America’s commitment to the Paris Agreement of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 26 percent by 2025. It does this by building on the clean energy progress we have already achieved as a state, and by prioritizing working with utilities to achieve these…
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Updated: Black Hills Energy responds to Sen. Leroy Garcia’s infuriation
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Updated: Julie C. Rodriguez, a spokeswoman for Black Hills Energy, got back to us with a response to Sen. Leroy Garcia’s withering view of the company’s rate-hike request. Here it is (with the original story below). “In short, the Phase 2 filing is not a request for a rate increase, it is simply a plan…
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A special session for wind power? So says Independence’s Amy Cooke
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Citing unnamed sources, the Independence Institute’s Amy Oliver Cooke asserts in a blog post that Gov. John Hickenlooper has an ulterior motive in talking up a possible special session: He wants to promote wind power on a massive scale. And he wants to throw the keys to behemoth public utility Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest power provider. According…
