The regulators presiding over Boulder’s application to separate from Xcel Energy in the interest of establishing a municipal electric utility gave some of the city’s proposal partial, conditional approval Thursday, and denied the rest of it.
The three-member Colorado Public Utilities Commission issued a 90-page written order that confirmed the commission’s Aug. 30 oral deliberations.
The order follows a nine-day trial that took place in Denver over late July and early August, and the application reviewed during that period was actually Boulder’s third in two years; neither of the first two were accepted for trial.
Entering the hearings, Boulder set forth a request for approval of the transfer of Xcel assets within city limits.
Boulder also asked that the commission approve a separation plan, which spelled out the details of various proposed processes needed for a “safe, reliable and effective” split with Xcel.
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