Colorado Springs Utilities Puts a Fair Price on Rooftop Solar
Colorado Public Radio (CPR) reported this week that Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) wants to change its rules for “how solar customers are billed and credited.” The story details how rooftop solar owners feel duped and their regret over having invested in solar. This isn’t a simple “utility-versus-solar-owners” story, though. Rooftop solar is currently paid more […]
Colorado Springs Utilities Coal Plant May Get Stay of Execution
Last week, Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) earned a likely stay of execution for its Ray Nixon coal plant. It came in the form of a surprise compromise bill pushed by environmental groups meant to head off more sweeping relief. The bill, SB26-182, would allow a three-year extension of the retirement of the coal unit until […]
Colorado Joins the Southwest Power Pool. Now What?
Last night, several Colorado-based utilities officially joined the Southwest Power Pool, a regional transmission organization serving members in all or part of 17 states. Colorado Springs Utilities, Platte River Power Authority, Tri-State Generation and Transmission, and others have become part of the RTO, which is the first “to bridge the eastern and western electric grids.” […]
Independence Institute Tells the Public Utilities Commission to Reconsider Forced Electrification Rulemaking
In the 2021 legislative session, the Colorado General Assembly passed SB21-264, a first-in-the-nation law requiring the state’s gas distribution utilities to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 4% by 2025 and by 22% by 2030, from a 2015 baseline, by filing “Clean Heat Plans” with the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). Since then, Colorado gas utilities like […]
Colorado Utilities Signal Pain Ahead for Energy Transition
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Capitulation or deliberation? CSU shouldn’t rush into early closure of Martin Drake Power Plant
If the Board of the Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) doesn’t even know the per-kilowatt-hour cost for the municipal utility’s Martin Drake Power Plant – the power plant it is charged with overseeing – then the Board has no business making financial decisions that will dramatically impact the lives of every CSU ratepayer. Yet, that’s exactly […]