CIEA
Industry News
- Xcel/PSCo will file its next Electric Resource Plan (ERP) in October 2011, followed by a new RFP in 2012
- Transmission letter from CIEA to PSCo and the CO PUC asking for a conference and studies before the next PSCo ERP filing
- Natural Gas Markets, Program by EUCI in Denver, CO July 25-26, 2011
- Colorado PUC near finalizing its NOPR to Implement HB 1262, supported by CIEA to create more transparency and fairness during bidding at the PUC, Docket No. 11R-416E
- FERC near finalizing its Transmission NOPR that should be helpful to IPPs
- City of Boulder negotiating with Xcel and considering municipalization
- Black Hills CPCN request to build another gas-fired project without bidding being opposed by CIEA
- PSCo RES/Renewables Report filed at PUC
- CO PUC has finalized Colorado’s Transmission NOPR, which streamlines transmission planning here
- SB 100 Reports by PSCo, and CIEA filing in related docket
- CO PUC final decision in PSCo coal plant replacement docket under HB 1365, and its follow-up CPCN dockets requesting implementation
- Colorado suit attacking renewables and Colorado RPS
- TJ Deora, formerly with Horizon Wind and a CIEA Board Member, now heads the Governor’s Energy Office under new CO Governor John Hickenlooper
- New CO PUC Chair has been seated, Joshua Epel
- WECC Ten-Year Regional Transmission Planning is being done through its Transmission Expansion Planning Policy Committee (TEPPC) and its Scenario Planning Steering Group (SPSG)
