Colorado Springs Utilities

Colorado Utilities Signal Pain Ahead for Energy Transition 0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
- March 26, 2025
Some of Colorado’s largest electric utilities are starting to sound the alarm over the pace, expense, and grid reliability implications of meeting the state’s decarbonization mandates. Xcel Energy, the state’s largest electricity provider, is increasingly worried about its ability to reliably deliver power to ratepayers under current regulatory constraints, according to a recent letter sent
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Capitulation or deliberation? CSU shouldn’t rush into early closure of Martin Drake Power Plant 0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Legal
- December 6, 2017
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
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