monopoly utility

Colorado PUC Trims Xcel’s Unprecedented Renewables Plan 0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Governing Bodies / Agencies
- December 21, 2023
Ratepayer interests received a small win from Colorado regulators overseeing Xcel Energy’s latest resource plan. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) pared back Xcel’s $15 billion request to build wind, solar, batteries, and new transmission lines by around $3 billion last week. The PUC’s trimming of Xcel’s request came as it approved an alternative resource
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Bootleggers, Baptists, and the Clean Energy Transition 0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Renewable Energy
- December 8, 2023
Independence Institute has a long track record of warning against the unhealthy incentives that can arise from the relationship between monopoly electric utilities and green policymakers. Once viewed as rivals of one another, the two sides realized a few years back that coexisting as fellow travelers on the road to the so-called clean energy transition
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Coloradans are taking on the state’s largest monopoly utility 0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Opinion Editorials, Renewable Energy, THE HILL
- March 7, 2018
With COPUC approval, Xcel, the state’s largest monopoly utility, plans to shift its generating portfolio from away from majority hydrocarbons (coal and natural gas) in favor of industrial wind, solar, and battery storage.
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Energy Policy Center testimony on HB17-1116 0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Governing Bodies / Agencies, Legal, Preferred Energy, Renewable Energy
- March 31, 2017
Mr. Chairman, members of the committee thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My name is Michael Sandoval. I am the senior energy policy analyst for the Independence Institute, a state-based, free market think tank, headquartered in Denver. The Independence Institute is opposed to HB17-1116 not in intent, but in process. We do think
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