All Posts Tagged With: "Colorado Public Utilities Commission"
State PUC Approves Xcel’s Two-Tier
Rate Structure
The plan essentially means the more electricity consumers use, the more they would pay. From June through September, Xcel’s 1.1 million residential customers will be charged a lower rate for the first 500 kilowatt-hours per month and a higher rate for all electricity above that amount.
4Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Festering Issue — The Cost of Smart Grid and
Who Should Pay
The price tag for upgrading the country’s system is set at $165 billion over the next two decades according to industry experts. As the costs mount, consumer advocates in Colorado and across the country are questioning how smart grid should be financed and who should pay the bill.
15Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
PUC Orders More Transparency for Boulder Smart Grid
The smart grid already allows Xcel to read meters in Boulder remotely, route power around bottle-necked lines and detect power outages without relying on people calling in. But the utility now says it believes the total bill will reach $42.1 million, not including O&M costs.
8Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Transmission Talks Heat Up in Southern Colorado
The arguments between the utility companies proposing the line and their opponents have mushroomed as the state and federal government carry out separate reviews. Xcel Energy and Tri-State say the line is necessary to export wind and solar power to the Front Range.
17Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Tri-State, Western Resource Advocates Reach Accord on Electric Resource Planning
WRA energy program director John Nielsen said the new approach is a big step forward “because it provides an opportunity for members of the public to work with Tri-State to consider the role that clean-energy resources might play in its resource plan.”
10Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Xcel Gets Reduced Rate Increase and
Admonishment from State PUC
The PUC estimates the increase will raise the average residential electricity bill by 6.5 percent, or about $4.43 a month. “No one likes a rate increase,” PUC Chairman Ron Binz said in a release. “But we scrubbed Xcel’s request thoroughly and believe that the reduced amount is fair.”
7Dec2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Solar Trade Group Praises Xcel’s Reworked
Rebate Program
Responding to the utility company’s 2010 solar Compliance Plan submitted to the PUC last week, the state’s leading solar industry trade group said the revised strategy highlights the need to increase the state’s Renewable Energy Standard (RES).
8Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Xcel Submits Plan to Rev Up Renewables
The proposal before the State PUC outlines how Xcel will adjust its energy mix away from coal-fired power production and more toward “green” energy production. The company says it wants to add roughly 980 megawatts of solar and wind power by 2015 and cut carbon emissions by 10 percent.
11Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Xcel Subverts Solar
Xcel Energy has distinguished itself over the last couple of years as one of the more progressive utilities in the country in terms of renewable-energy initiatives. Much of that good work has been overshadowed, in recent weeks, by the outcry over Xcel’s efforts to raise rates, and reduce solar rebates, to pay for the new $1.35-billion coal-fired generator at the Comanche Station in Pueblo.
10Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Xcel Drops Rate Increase Proposal to
Solar Customers
Gov. Ritter said he believed Xcel’s new minimum monthly bill, if implemented, would have been a disincentive for customers to buy solar panel arrays, stifling job growth, inhibiting future economic development and penalizing those voluntarily invested in clean energy.
5Aug2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Xcel Fee Proposal Slammed by State’s
Solar Industry
“This is something that’s not happening anywhere in the country,” said Namaste’s Blake Jones, about the 2.6 cents per kilowatt hour fee proposal. ” This is not part of the vision we have for Colorado’s new energy economy.”
27Jul2009 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Colorado Considers More Oversight of Tri-State
Driving the PUC’s look at the wholesale power supplier are concerns about climate change, uncertainty about future development costs and state mandates for more renewable energy. All that warrants a comprehensive look at statewide energy use, the commission says. Tri-State, however, questions the commission’s legal authority to oversee its plans.
21May2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Black Hills Corp. Reports Strong First Quarter Results
Earlier this year, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission issued an order pertaining to the Electric Resource Plan for the company’s Black Hills Energy - Colorado Electric utility, providing the opportunity to construct and operate two LMS-100 natural gas turbines for customer requirements.
1May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Updates from Around the State
>> PUC Holding Public Hearing on Xcel Rate Increase
>> Ritter Signs Renewable Energy Initiative
>> Teton Energy Selling Piceance Basin Assets
>> Court Rules Against CDOT on Mineral Rights
>> Banks Say Legislature Treading on Their Turf
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