Tag: Public Utilities Commission
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Decoding the charges on your Xcel bill
Reading an Xcel bill these days requires a handful of TUMS. The back of the bill is just as difficult to read. It describes the reason for each charge, if you can understand the explanation. To use a line from Beetlejuice: “This thing reads like stereo instructions.” Xcel Energy Regional Vice President for Regulatory and…
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Part owner of troubled Comanche 3 power plant wants money back from Colorado’s Xcel Energy
A part owner of the troubled and soon-to-be decommissioned Comanche Power Station Unit 3 near Pueblo wants its money back. CORE Electrical Cooperative delivered a notice Sept. 6 to the Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo), Xcel Energy’s Colorado branch, saying it is withdrawing from its partial ownership of the facility and demanding a refund…
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Colorado AARP warns against upcoming Xcel natural gas price increase
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Amidst one of the highest inflation rates in the nation, the Colorado chapter of America’s biggest group advocating for older people on Tuesday urged energy regulators to deny Xcel’s proposal to hike natural gas rates by nearly $189 million over three years. The rate hike, if approved, would mean Xcel residential customers would pay nearly…
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Multilingual translations enhance the Public Utilities Commission’s equity outreach program
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A full house gathered at the Montbello Recreation Center in Northeast Denver this week as part of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission’s new citizen equity and outreach program. Hosted by the Denver office of Climate…
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Colorado Public Utilities Commission plans public input meetings on clean heat program
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Public Utilities Commission has scheduled six public meetings across the state to discuss the impact of the state’s clean heat program and the future of natural gas in Colorado. A law passed in 2021 requires utility companies that distribute natural gas to reduce greenhouse gas…
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PUC allows Xcel to recover $500 million from customers for Winter Storm Uri fuel costs
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s energy regulators approved Xcel Energy’s request to recover $500 million from its customers for the company’s extraordinary fuel costs during a four-day winter freeze in 2021, even as they expressed misgivings at how Colorado’s biggest utility company handled the cold snap. In granting Xcel’s…
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Xcel gets the green light for $2 billion power line expansion
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission gave Xcel Energy permission to spend at least $2 billion to build up to 650 miles of new high-voltage power lines in southern and eastern Colorado to serve windmills and solar farms. The company’s customers will pay for the new transmission lines through what’s called the Transmission Cost Adjustment rider…
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Xcel Energy’s climate plan includes carbon capture
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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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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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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.…