As was expected, Boulder and Xcel Energy jointly filed a request Tuesday seeking extra time to file agreements that state regulators required as part of the 2017 partial approval of the city’s plan to separate from Xcel and form a municipal electric utility.
It’s the second time the parties have requested more time. The three required agreements originally were due in December, but Boulder and Xcel asked for, , another three months to work on them.
That created a new deadline of March 13, which the parties signalled last week they would not be able to meet. In this latest filing, they’re asking for a June 11 deadline.
The regulators at the state Public Utilities Commission required the following joint filings when they :
• An agreement between Boulder and Xcel that allows Xcel to permanently place and access facilities in Boulder that it needs to serve its remaining customers
• An agreement on a revised list of assets the city would acquire from Xcel, correcting “errors and omissions” from what was originally submitted in Boulder’s application
• An agreement, or multiple agreements, between Boulder and Xcel addressing the city’s payment to Xcel for costs the company incurs facilitating the separation
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