United Power will be the next to go, with 7 other smaller co-ops attempting to renegotiate contracts or find price stability on their own
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Xcel will raise electric bills again next month. A quarter of the hike will cover closing coal-fired power plants.
The utility’s 1.6 million Colorado customers will see their bills rise 4.4% — about $4 on the average residential bill — on Sept. 1
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Early closure of Pueblo coal plant could force Xcel customers to pay up to $89M for water it doesn’t need
Customers of the state’s largest utility also are responsible for debt service on $27 million spent on never used southeastern Colorado ditch rights
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Xcel Energy makes money building power plants. The more it builds the more consumers have to pay — with no end in sight.
While the strategy delivers returns to investors, a cascade of rate increases could lead to “a public backlash” a credit agency warns.
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Xcel Energy’s ability to meet next summer’s electricity demand hangs on two Pueblo solar projects
The transition from fossil-fuel generated electricity to renewables is proving tricky for Colorado’s largest utility.
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The coal-fired power plant in Pueblo is seen as so unreliable one of its co-op owners wants out
CORE Electric says outages at the Pueblo plant increased the cost of electricity for 172,000 suburban and rural Colorado customers.
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Coroner identified two men killed in coal slide at Pueblo power plant
Two men who died after they were buried in a coal slide at a Colorado electricity generating plant last week have been identified. The Pueblo County Coroner said that Kyle Bussey, 28, of Pueblo and Philip Roberts, 36, of Cañon City died in the accident Thursday at the Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo, The Denver […]
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Two workers found dead after being trapped under 80 feet of coal at Pueblo power plant
Emergency crews found the bodies of two workers hours after they became trapped under 80 feet of coal at the Comanche 3 power plant south of Pueblo, officials said Thursday. The bodies of the victims, who were subcontractors for Xcel Energy, were found at about 3 p.m. after the coal pile collapsed earlier Thursday, Pueblo […]
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Xcel Energy agrees to close Pueblo’s Comanche 3 coal plant by 2031
Xcel Energy, under prodding from environmental groups and state regulators, is offering to close its Comanche 3 power plant — the largest coal-fired unit in Colorado — by 2031, putting an end to coal-fired electricity in the state. The $1 billion Comanche 3 unit, in Pueblo, went online in 2010 boasting advanced supercritical pulverized coal […]
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Opinion: 12 years is too long to let the Comanche 3 coal-fired electricity plant keep running
As mayors who represent Coloradans in Xcel Energy’s service territory, we urge the Public Utilities Commission to reconsider Xcel’s settlement decision that would keep the state’s largest climate-polluting coal plant open until 2035, and instead ensure that the coal plant is replaced by cleaner, more affordable electricity before 2030. The climate crisis weighs heavy on […]