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  • Phantom carbon tax still haunts ratepayers0

    • February 21, 2011

    Xcel Energy testified today in the House Agriculture Committee that its resource acquisition projections DO include a $20 per ton “phantom carbon tax” as allowed under language from HB 08-1164, but the tax DOES NOT affect ratepayers.  The Denver Business Journal reports: But Karen Hyde, Xcel vice president of rates and regulatory affairs, said the potential

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  • What's wrong with "least cost" for CO ratepayers?0

    • February 9, 2011

    In State Senator Scott Renfroe’s closing remarks to the State, Veterans and Military Affairs committee, he reasonably questioned members while asking for support of their support for SB11-058: “What’s wrong with striving to have our energy sources be the least cost?” Apparently everything. The committee defeated Renfroe’s “Electric Utilities Employ Least-Cost Planning for New Resource Acquisition”

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