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…
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