All Posts Tagged With: "Xcel Energy"

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Analyzing Issues 2B and 2C –
Which Way will Boulder Vote?

Untold gallons of ink-both physical and digital-have been spilled in recent months about Boulder’s Nov 1 vote to authorize municipalization of Xcel Energy’s electric system within the city. Contributing expert John Egan weighs in on the measures, providing supporters with a host of reasons to be optomistic — OR NOT.

24Oct2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Xcel’s Residential Electrical Rates to Drop in 4th Quarter

In an announcement on Friday, Xcel (NYSE: XEL) said the drop for residential customers is primarily because of the expiration of summertime tiered rates and lower costs to purchase fuel and energy.

19Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Learning From Portland’s Attempt
at Municipalization

For all its attitude and quirks, Portland remains a place that pursues the cutting edge of environmental, social and transportation issues — with both successes and failures — which create lessons for ongoing Boulder projects. Take, for example, Boulder’s debate over whether to leave Xcel Energy in favor of creating a municipal utility.

29Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Retiring Xcel CEO: ‘OK if no more coal’

Kelly, who’s apparently moving from Minnesota (where Xcel is based) to Colorado, went on to question those in Congress denying the science behind global climate change and the need to move away from fossil fuels. “I think the science is pretty solid. Maybe we haven’t communicated it well enough.”

22Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel Energy Seeks PUC Approval of Low Cost
Wind Deal

David Eves, chief executive officer of Xcel’s subsidiary Public Service Company of Colorado, said the wind energy offer from NextEra was too good to pass-up. “This proposed purchase contains the lowest-cost wind energy we’ve seen, making it competitive with other energy sources.”

19Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Boulder and Partners Celebrate Successful Energy Efficiency Innovations

“In 2006, Boulder adopted the Climate Action Plan, which challenges the community to meet the Kyoto Protocol goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012,” said City Manager Jane Brautigam.

16Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Plug Wars: When Cities Take Back the Power

The City of Boulder is weighing whether to renew its 20-year franchise agreement for electricity with Xcel, or to create its own municipal utility. The rub? The city has pegged contract renewal to reduction of carbon emissions á la Kyoto Protocol goals (greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2012). Boulder officials dismiss recent offers by Xcel (like offsetting carbon emissions with renewable energy) as window dressing to disguise the utility’s heavy carbon emissions statewide.

11Aug2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Xcel’s Chief Executive Vows to ‘Get a Fair Price’
for Assets From Boulder

“The bottom line is we believe municipalization would be a bad thing for the citizens and customers,” Fowke said, and predicted that the municipalization plan, supported by the Boulder City Council, would be rejected by voters in the fall.

28Jul2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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A City-Owned Utility?
Boulder Takes It to the People

It will be extremely interesting to see what happens this fall when folks will be essentially asked … how much clean power they want, and more importantly, how much they’re willing to pay for it. Apparently, 90% of electricity generation from wind and solar by 2020 isn’t enough.

22Jul2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Xcel and NextEra Sign 200 Mw Wind Deal

The Limon Wind Energy Center will be home to 125 turbines and related equipment in Lincoln and Elbert counties, plus a buffer zone surrounding it. All told, 35,000 acres will be involved. Xcel did not disclose the cost of the wind farm but said the price was nearly 40 percent lower than bids offered in the earlier round.

28Jun2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Who Will Deliver the Light in Boulder?

In Boulder, there is little debate over the cause of climate change. Everyone knows wind and solar are good and coal is bad. You would think the carbon conscious residents and council members would hop all over Xcel’s recent proposal to deliver 70 percent wind power to the city by 2013 and 90 percent by 2020. Well, it’s not that simple. While carbon reduction is a goal, it’s not the only goal.

19Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Smart Grid Consumers: New Surveys Reveal What They Think Now

The numbers are different, but two smart grid consumer surveys agree on the bottom line: Most consumers are still in the dark. Both surveys found that most are concerned about their energy use, but know little about emerging energy management systems.

9Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel: Boulder Could be ‘Most Green City Worldwide’

But that could come at a cost of higher utility rates — at least until wind power becomes cheaper than coal or natural gas. “Whatever it is that they are proposing, it appears to be only a wind purchase deal with an unclear pricing structure,” said former Boulder councilman Steve Pomerance.

7Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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