public utilities commission
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Xcel gets permission to bill customers more than $182M
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The Colorado Public Utilities Commission approved a settlement agreement earlier this month that allows Xcel Energy to impose an additional $182,235,418 on its customers, amounting to a 6.44% increase, or an average of $5.24 per month for residential customers and a 6.24%, or $6.64 increase for the average commercial customer starting April 1. This increase…
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Coloradans face sharp spike in energy bills this winter
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Millions of Coloradans face steep increases in energy bills this winter, with some having to pay as much as 50% more compared to last winter. The rate increases occur at a time when residents struggle to keep up with inflation and the COVID-19 pandemic continues to hammer the state and the rest of the country.…
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Xcel Energy’s climate plan includes carbon capture
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As Xcel Energy executives announced their vision of delivering zero-carbon electricity by 2050 in Denver, they may have also revived a long debate over the viability of carbon capture technology. Minneapolis-based Xcel — Colorado’s largest power utility — in 2004 fought a 10 percent renewable energy mandate in Colorado. Now it says it sees a…
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Xcel seeks OK of $2.5B Colo. renewable energy plan
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Xcel Energy Inc. submitted a plan to Colorado regulators Wednesday seeking approval of a $2.5 billion program to transform electricity generation in the state, turning away from coal and natural gas and relying more heavily on renewable energy. The proposed Colorado Energy Plan (CEP) by the state’s largest electricity provider, with 3.1 million customers in…
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Next-gen energy technology can give rural Colorado a much-needed boost
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Isn’t technology grand? In the last decade, we’ve seen advancements in technology drive the price of 70 inch TVs from $15,000 in 2007 to around $1,000 today. Think about that. In ten years, a six foot wide TV went from something only the very wealthy could afford to something you could buy with the crumbs…
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House committee wants “cooling off” before utility reps could serve on PUC
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DENVER – Pueblo officials are so mad about high electricity rates that they want to clamp down on how soon industry officials can serve on the state Public Utilities Commission in the future. House Bill 1281 would establish a four-year “cooling-off period” before anyone who has been an officer or director for a regulated utility could…
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A changing of the guard at Pueblo’s much-unloved public utility
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The local face of Rapid City, S.D.-based Black Hills Energy in Pueblo, company Vice President Christopher Burke, is out of the picture and has left the company. The reason? Not clear, but the Pueblo Chieftain’s Peter Roper, who brings us the news of Burke’s departure, suggests a likely basis for the reshuffling with this dry…
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Bracing for another round of ratepayer unrest in hard-pressed Pueblo
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A public notice this week from the Colorado Office of Consumer Counsel announced that Pueblo’s main power utility, Rapid City, S.D.-based Black Hills Energy, is filing a request with the Public Utilities Commission to increase the monthly minimum charged to some of its residential customers in southern Colorado. In a addition to Pueblo, Black Hills provides power to Cañon…
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Colorado Democrat Joe Neguse launches bid for 2nd Congressional District seat: ‘It’s up to us to fight back’
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Vowing to fight President Donald Trump’s “disastrous agenda,” Democrat Joe Neguse, the son of Eritrean immigrants and a former CU regent, declared Tuesday he’s running for the 2nd Congressional District seat held by U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor. “As refugees and naturalized citizens, my parents never forgot or…
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Strategist: Democrat Joe Neguse ‘near certain’ to run for Jared Polis’ 2nd District congressional seat
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Democrat Joe Neguse, executive director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies and a former CU regent, is “near certain” to run for the 2nd Congressional District seat held by fellow Democrat Jared Polis, who announced Sunday morning he’s running for governor, according to a top Democratic strategist close to Neguse. Neguse, the 2014 Democratic nominee…
