Xcel Energy’s Versatile, Profitable Carbon Tax0

• Archive, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Legal
• May 5, 2011

To my knowledge, Colorado is the only state in which regulators allow utilities to incorporate a carbon tax into the economic models used to make resource acquisition decisions (see here and here). Ratepayers can’t see it in their monthly bill, but the tax is used in the models, and the models dictate spending. It’s the