Fed up in Pueblo: Ratepayers tell the PUC they aren’t going to take it anymore
As we noted here recently, Pueblo’s travails at the hands of its principal public utility, Black Hills Energy, have been getting a good dose of media coverage. The dust-up between the city’s...
View ArticleBringing rooftop solar back down to earth
The blogosphere continues to buzz with posts from solar-energy enthusiasts who would like to see photovoltaic panels sprout from every roof under the Colorado sun—no matter how much it costs...
View ArticleALERT—PUC needs to hold line on Xcel in $157 million rate case
Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy, the largest regulated, investor-owned utility operating in Colorado, is asking the state’s Public Utilities Commission to OK a $157 million rate hike on its 1.3 million...
View ArticleCoalition warns EPA of federal air mandate’s ‘unknown consequences’—and...
Caught between the compounding costs of our state’s controversial Clean Air Clean Jobs Act of 2010 and sweeping new federal air standards soon to be imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,...
View ArticleColorado needs to wake up to pending EPA rules
Time is ticking on the EPA’s clock as the federal agency prepares sweeping new mandates that will significantly impact Colorado consumers and our state’s economy. The EPA’s rulemaking is starting to...
View ArticleHow to implement EPA’s new air rules? Trust—but verify
Our coalition has been among Colorado’s many energy stakeholders that have voiced serious concerns about pending new federal air standards and their likely, sweeping impact on power consumers. We have...
View ArticleOffice of Consumer Counsel needs an updated mission
For decades, the working premise of our state’s top consumer advocate, the Office of Consumer Counsel, has been that Colorado’s rank-and-file utility ratepayers need an advocate in their corner. And...
View ArticleConsumers won one, but also lost a big one in Colorado’s 2015 legislative...
Our state’s electricity ratepayers have barely begun to pick up the tab for sweeping, new air mandates fast-tracked into law by the General Assembly in 2010. The Clean Air Clean Jobs Act, which in part...
View ArticleLitigating on the backs of Colorado ratepayers
Much has been said already about the potentially devastating impact on northwestern Colorado’s economy if one of its top industries, mining, is brought to its knees by a lawsuit that effectively seeks...
View ArticleColorado AG takes up consumer cause in suit against Clean Power Plan, but...
As reported recently, Attorney General Cynthia Coffman added Colorado to the growing number of states ready to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s unprecedented Clean Power Plan. Coffman’s...
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