Colorado oil and gas regulators Tuesday passed sweeping rules to deal with the cumulative impacts of drilling and hailed it as “a big step forward,” but legislators, environmentalists and community groups criticized…
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Xcel should be ordered to get moving on home solar hookups, state regulators and industry groups say
Xcel Energy has dragged its feet in setting up a state mandated program to connect home solar arrays and should be ordered to get the program moving, according to a complaint filed…
Southeastern Coloradans could pay $20 more a month if state regulators approve utility’s rate increase
Black Hills Energy, which serves about 100,000 customers in a slice of southeastern Colorado, is seeking a $36.7 million rate hike, which would increase the average residential bill by about $20 a…
How much methane is Colorado’s oil and gas industry discharging? Regulators will soon start measuring.
Colorado air regulators are set to begin patrolling the state’s oil fields and the skies over them to tally how much methane the industry’s wells, tanks and pipelines are spewing into the…
Xcel may shut off power more often to avoid wildfires. Regulators have 8 questions about how that might work.
An inquiry by state regulators into Xcel Energy’s April “public safety” electricity outage — which created chaos in parts of the Front Range — has yielded a list of potential steps utilities…
Xcel’s plan for new EV chargers, rebates cut by 40% by Colorado regulators
Xcel Energy’s ambitious and expensive plan to develop the infrastructure to serve electric vehicles was cut by 40% to $264 million by state utility regulators who said the proposal failed to demonstrate…
Colorado oil and gas regulators reject two drilling plans deemed too close to people and pronghorns
Colorado oil and gas regulators have, in the last few weeks, rejected proposed drilling projects in an effort to protect pronghorn and suburbanites. The state Energy and Carbon Management Commission rejected a…
Battle over United Power’s quest to leave Tri-State ends with a federal regulator’s exit formula
Federal regulators have ended a four-year battle by Brighton-based United Power to leave the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association by setting the formula to calculate an exit fee. United Power is the…