Energy, Utilities & Water  September 24, 2015

Boulder offers PUC alternatives for municipal utility

BOULDER — Responding to a state finding in August that its application to form a municipal electric utility was “incomplete,” the city of Boulder has offered a series of alternative ways it could carry out its voter-approved mandate to take over the service from Xcel Energy.

In an amended application filed Wednesday with the state Public Utilities Commission, Boulder offered several options for the transition other than simply seizing Xcel’s assets. It offered to build additional facilities of its own if needed, negotiate over who owns a line based on the number of customers it serves, and modify “the location and…

With BizWest since 2012 and in Colorado since 1979, Dallas worked at the Longmont Times-Call, Colorado Springs Gazette, Denver Post and Public News Service. A Missouri native and Mizzou School of Journalism grad, Dallas started as a sports writer and outdoor columnist at the St. Charles (Mo.) Banner-News, then went to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch before fleeing the heat and humidity for the Rockies. He especially loves covering our mountain communities.
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