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Colorado utility customers get lump of coal for holiday: soaring bills

Ratepayers report bills double or more from the same time a year ago; Xcel Energy points to a doubling of wholesale natural gas prices.

Robert A. Miller Education Resource Center founder Jocelyn Miller in the center Dec. 15, 2022. Miller's Xcel gas bill has increased significantly over the past few months. (Andy Cross, The Denver Post)
Robert A. Miller Education Resource Center founder Jocelyn Miller in the center Dec. 15, 2022. Miller’s Xcel gas bill has increased significantly over the past few months. (Andy Cross, The Denver Post)
DENVER, CO - DECEMBER 12: Judith Kohler - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
By | jkohler@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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The utility bill Jocelyn Miller got in October for her business, a small nonprofit in Denver, was the largest she had ever received. The next month it was even bigger.
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