Primer for Forthcoming PUC Decision on Boulder’s Smart Grid City0

• Archive, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Governing Bodies / Agencies
• December 3, 2010

As the Denver Post’s Mark Jaffe noted, sometime soon the PUC is expected to make a major ruling on Boulder’s Smart Grid City (“SCG”), a pilot project for so-called “smart grid” technologies that has been much maligned for costing Xcel three times what the utility had initially estimated. Specifically, the PUC will rule on a