All Posts Tagged With: "Colorado Public Utilities Commission"

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West Slope News — SourceGas Customers Rates to Drop

SourceGas announced that customers in its Western Slope service area will see a net decrease of approximately 16 percent for a typical residential and commercial peak winter month bill. The reduction is the result of two filings recently approved by the Colorado PUC.

9Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel Energy’s Plan to Stop Burning Coal on the Table at the State PUC

Regulators this week will consider approving Xcel Energy’s $1.3 billion plan to stop burning coal at its electric power plants in Denver and Boulder. The utility also wants to shutdown a coal-fired generator and convert another to natural gas at its Arapahoe plant in Denver and install emission controls at plants in Brush and Hayden.

6Dec2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Black Hills Files to Retire Canon City Plant

The company has ruled out converting the W.N. Clark facility to woody biomass, and says retirement is its most economical option for meeting the Colorado Clean Air, Clean Jobs Act and other pending regulations.

3Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Colorado Mining Association Wants PUC Commissioners Removed From Xcel Coal-Plan Decision

The CMA filed a motion yesterday with the Colorado PUC seeking to have two of its three commissioners recuse themselves from any further involvement with Xcel Energy Inc.’s $1.3 billion plan to switch 903 megawatts of coal-based power to natural gas.

15Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Poll: Coloradoans Prefer Natural Gas, Renewables Over Coal

And by a wide margin: 79 percent of those surveyed prefer renewable energy and natural gas over coal, with 76 percent supporting Xcel’s plan, mandated by last session’s House Bill 1365. The poll results were unveiled yesterday ahead of the COPUC’s deliberations over a controversial energy bill passed last legislative session.

22Sep2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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West Slope Miners Protest Coal Bill

“You might wonder why I got all the applause,” he said speaking to a crowd of hundreds. “It’s (because) I’m just one of the coal miners here. I’m one of the ones … afraid this bill is going to do away with my job.” Winey was one of several coal miners who spoke to members of the Colorado PUC yesterday in Grand Junction during a public input session on the fallout of the Clean Air, Clean Jobs Act.

1Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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SmartGridCity Slammed at PUC Hearing

Both regular citizens and businesses took shots at Xcel Energy’s multimillion dollar Boulder-based SmartGridCity pilot at a PUC hearing yesterday. The ambitious program was cited for not having strong cost controls, according to filings by the commission staff and citizen watchdog groups.

1Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Focus on Renewables Development Policy
This Installment: COMMUNITY SOLAR GARDENS

Welcome to Renewables Development Policy, a new topic area from Colorado Energy News created to provide our readers with reporting and insightful analysis of the most current issues impacting development of renewable energy in Colorado. This month we’re focusing on the opportunities and challenges involved with Community Solar Gardens.

18Aug2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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GEO’s 2010 Utilities Report for Colorado
an Eye-Opener

The report provides an in-depth description of the state’s sprawling utility marketplace, including individual profiles of all 65 utilities, with a breakdown of their generation fuel mix, incentives for energy efficiency and renewable energy, governance structure, customer split and more.

6Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Tiered Rates Are
Fair Rates

Much has been said and written lately about the new tiered electric rates for residential customers of Xcel Energy. Some of it has been accurate, but a lot of it has been misleading. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission understands that consumers are concerned about the impact of the new rate structure on their utility bills. As with any electric rate structure, some customers will benefit more than others based on their patterns of usage.

15Jun2010 | admin | 5 comments | Continued
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Viewpoint: The Billion Dollar Block of Concrete

The insider joke is that utilities always want to build the next “billion dollar block of concrete” — not for the power, but because it can be added to their “rate base” and thus earn these returns. Why is their return on capital far higher than you or I can make on a secure investment?

13Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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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 | 6 comments | Continued
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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
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