Xcel Energy
Colorado PUC Steamrolls Local Decisions on Xcel’s $1.7B Power Pathway Transmission Line
When Xcel Energy started condemning Elbert County ranchland for its $1.7 billion, 550-mile Power Pathway transmission line, it hadn’t yet bothered to secure local permits. The monopoly utility filed condemnation actions against landowners while…
Xcel Energy Proposes Large-Load Tariff for Data Centers
Last week, Xcel Energy proposed a long-awaited large-load tariff on data centers that want to build…
Colorado Joins the Southwest Power Pool. Now What?
Last night, several Colorado-based utilities officially joined the Southwest Power Pool, a regional…
Xcel Says It Can’t Shut Down its Coal Plants by 2030.…
Xcel Energy’s March 2 filing with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) reads like a…
Colorado Sun’s ‘Nonpartisan’ Case Against Natural Gas…
The Colorado Sun recently published an opinion article that diagnoses a real problem — rising energy…
Xcel faces scrutiny for gas rate increases
The Minnesota Reformer reports today on the scrutiny that Xcel Energy is facing over its natural gas rate increase proposals. Here’s the background, from the Reformer: In October, Xcel asked the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission for permission to…
PUC Establishes New ‘Clean Heat’ Targets Designed to…
The regulatory noose around Colorado’s natural gas utilities just got a whole lot tighter, and…
Xcel knows that coal matters, but only in Colorado
This month, Xcel Energy asked state regulators in Colorado to extend the operating life of the…
The Big Short(fall): Colorado’s Upcoming Power Plant…
By Ethan Cornell* Introduction The data summarizing planned generation closures in Colorado signals…
Xcel to push batteries through PUC, doubletime
As American Experiment’s Bill Glahn reported last week, Xcel Energy is proposing to double its…
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