Ratepayer Coalition

The Coalition of Ratepayers Case Study 0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
- November 4, 2019
The Coalition of Ratepayers is a Colorado non-profit composed of small businesses and individuals. It has been an active party in two electric utility regulatory proceedings: the Rush Creek Wind Farm and the Colorado Energy Plan (CEP). The Coalition first intervened against the Rush Creek Wind Farm, and although the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved
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Xcel lies. Reality dies…and so does affordable power 0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
- January 21, 2018
How Xcel is playing loose with numbers and gaming the system in its favor. Xcel Energy is a monopoly with no competition. Still it spends millions of ratepayer dollars on PR campaigns and lobbyists to convince the media, lawmakers and its hostages customers – the entire state – that it is “responsible by nature.” The
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Continental Army versus British Empire: coalition opposes Xcel’s latest money grab 0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
- October 7, 2017
The regulatory space at the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is the playground of corporate lawyers, unelected bureaucrats, and well-funded special interest groups. They have “stakeholder” meetings that include only themselves. Then they issue press statements slapping each other on the back for their hard work securing a “settlement” that forces Colorado working families and
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Xcel Energy, PUC, and OCC are Irresponsible by Ratepayers 0
- ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT, Governing Bodies / Agencies, Legal, Renewable Energy
- September 7, 2016
By Amy Oliver Cooke and Michael Sandoval Is it time to eliminate the Office of Consumer Counsel (OCC) and elect our Commissioners who serve on the Public Utilities Commission (PUC)? Maybe. Our recent insider perspective on the so-called approval process by supposedly neutral regulators leaves us pondering that very question. The most recent Xcel Energy
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