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Colorado justices say utilities commission overreached by immunizing Xcel in rate document
Xcel Energy cannot rely upon a rate-setting document to broadly immunize itself from liability against electrocutions, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The justices originally heard the electrocution-related lawsuit from Francisco Cuevas to decide whether Xcel’s tariff, which sets the rates and terms of service for its customers, shielded the utility from liability when…
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Colorado residents face high energy bills after regulators turn away from natural gas, experts say
Colorado residents could be paying a lot more for home energy, following the state’s decision last week to turn away from natural gas as a home cooking and heating fuel, experts said. Some 1.9 million Colorado households warm their homes each winter using gas. That’s also how tens of thousands of businesses heat their buildings.…
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Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission votes to suspend reality | CALDARA
Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission has done it again — proving when regulators get together, they can create a fantasyland so detached from reality it makes Disneyland look like a documentary. Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission just adopted a new rule ordering power utilities to slash greenhouse emissions 41% by 2035, a big jump from the legislature’s…
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Colorado, Xcel, petition to delay Comanche coal-fired generating unit shutdown
Colorado’s largest utility company has petitioned energy regulators to push back the retirement of a coal-fired, electrical generating unit located in the Southern part of the state from December 2025 to the end of 2026. The Polis administration is backing the petition. Comanche Unit 2 is one of three coal-fired units at the Pueblo-based Comanche…
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Energy battle: Colorado power plant closures ignite debate over jobs, taxes and energy future in Pueblo
As Colorado darts toward a future powered by “clean” energy, a battle is brewing in Pueblo, where coal closures, union jobs and lost tax revenue collide with a community demanding a solution as its power plants are a primary target for a shutdown. Between 2025 and 2031, six more coal-fired power plants in Colorado are scheduled to…
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Investigation launched into Xcel Energy’s preemptive power shutoff, which left Colorado governor frustrated
Colorado’s energy regulators on Wednesday decided to open an investigation into Xcel Energy’s decision to preemptively shut off power over the weekend, which left thousands of people without electricity – some for two days – and compelled the governor to rebuke the energy company. In a news release, the Public Utilities Commission said it is exploring…
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Investigation launched into Xcel Energy’s preemptive power shutoff, which left Colorado governor frustrated
Colorado’s energy regulators on Wednesday decided to open an investigation into Xcel Energy’s decision to preemptively shut off power over the weekend, which left thousands of people without electricity — some for two days — and compelled the governor to rebuke the energy company. In a news release, the Public Utilities Commission said it is exploring…