More than 100,000 people have called for aid paying gas and electric bills, but the help is available only once per customer
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December natural gas bills will jump 54% as Xcel passes a stack of price hikes on to Colorado customers
Colorado’s largest utility is passing on price hikes that will raise the average natural gas bill to $177 from $115
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Utility bills burn through paychecks for thousands of Coloradans
For the past five years, Susana Martinez Oliva has dreaded the onset of winter in Colorado. She lives in a mobile home with her husband and six children in the Dotsero Mobile Home Park, alongside Interstate 70 near the eastern edge of Glenwood Canyon, a cold, windy corridor over 6,000 feet high in the mountains. […]
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Xcel pushes natural gas rate hike for Colorado customers even as regulators ask for coronavirus-related delay
Xcel Energy is pressing ahead with a proposed $145 million natural gas rate increase despite concerns by consumer advocates and a state regulator about its impact on customers in the midst of the novel coronavirus pandemic. In a March 18 ruling, Colorado Public Utilities Commission Administrative Law Judge Steven Denman said he “strongly encourages” Xcel […]
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Want cheaper electricity? Xcel Energy wants to help — if you’re willing to do your laundry at 2 a.m.
Lisa Ferreira’s hot tub became a little less hot and her washing machine a little more nocturnal when she and her husband tested out the new electricity rates that Xcel Energy now wants to extend to all 1.2 million of its residential customers in Colorado. Ferreira and her husband were part of Xcel Energy’s two-year […]