Boulder cannot acquire Xcel Energy facilities that exclusively serve customers outside city limits, and the Colorado Public Utilities Commission will not force the utility to share facilities with the city, the commissioners ruled Wednesday.
The commission partially dismissed an application from the city to acquire facilities, including substations and distribution infrastructure, outside city limits for the creation of a city-run energy utility.
The PUC did say Boulder and Xcel can engage in discovery and the city may supplement its original application.
Xcel had asked the commission to dismiss Boulder’s application as being incomplete and as violating the doctrine of regulated monopoly, which grants the utility the exclusive right to serve customers in its service area.
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