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Colorado utility customer surcharges for the February freeze that paralyzed Texas will range from $44 to a high of $557 over time, depending on the region and the company, according to the most recent requests filed at the Public Utilities Commission.
The Office of Consumer Counsel, the governor’s office and others have said they will continue to question the surcharges. They argue the utilities that bought natural gas at inflated prices to generate electricity or deliver to customers should have warned consumers how they could avoid the surging bills.
The utilities asking the PUC for permission to pass on the costs say they had to buy enough energy to meet the potentially high demands of consumers during the extreme cold snap, and that current rules don’t allow them to warn customers solely on the basis of higher costs. They are asking the PUC to approve boosts to monthly customer bills to cover hundreds of millions of dollars in extra fuel costs as delivery syst
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Xcel Energy got the greenlight Wednesday to create an electricity discount as an economic development incentive for companies expanding in or moving to Colorado, even though state regulators were troubled by what they saw as problems in the plan.
The discounts aimed at companies sensitive to electric prices, range from 30% a year for three years to 10% for 10 years were approved by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission on a 2 to 1 vote.
Xcel was given the ability to create such a program by House Bill 1271, passed in 2018. The legislation said utilities should be able “to offer rates and programs that help attract these businesses and provide incentives for the expansion.”
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Connecticut Water Company rate increase that would boost average bill by $10 per month met with opposition
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A view of the Connecticut Water Co. s Straitsville Reservoir in Naugatuck.Contributed Photo /
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong this week criticized a $20 million rate increase sought by Clinton-based Connecticut Water Co., stating that the utility’s over 360,000 customers across the state will be hard pressed to pay rate increases of as much as 20 percent that are being proposed.
Tong, in a brief filed with Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority, said that what Connecticut Water is seeking is unwarranted and unreasonable. The company’s rate increase request, Tong added, includes multiple unnecessary and excessive costs that, if removed or reduced, would almost entirely eliminate the need for any rate increase.