Failure always option in R&D, so Xcel should pay for project

Research and development can be expensive. Ideas are only as good as the paper they’re printed on – or the pixels that display them – until someone takes the risk to prove they can work in the real world.

And failure is always an option. Good ideas don’t always pan out the first time. That’s why those who take the risks and persevere until an idea can be profitably implemented reap the rewards. Those who fund innovation deserve a rich return on investment.

So what is publicly traded Xcel Energy thinking when it asks the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to allow it…