Posted on 04/12/2019 7:25:26 PM PDT by george76
Representative K.C. Becker and Senator Faith Winter have introduced legislation that would give Xcel Energy a green light and blank check to prematurely close existing power plants, replace them with expensive, intermittent resources, and then force captive electric ratepayers to pick up the tab with interest for the massive fuel switching scheme and workforce transition plans.
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Colorado Energy Plan (CEP) .. The monopoly utility is more than willing to build and build and build so it can fuel switch to utility-scale wind, solar, and batteries (which don’t really exist yet) at the expense of Colorado ratepayers.
Instead of saving ratepayers money, the Coalition proved that the CEP will cost them hundreds of millions of dollars. Further, we found Xcel’s modeling errors, which PUC staff did not.
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this bill should only be viewed as another avenue the Democrats are willing to travel in their attempt to reorder society through legislation.
Make no mistake; this bill will impact all Colorado residents – especially the state’s lower-income communities and those with static incomes, who in many cases are the elderly. In fact, AARP is against HB19-1313 because the organization understands an unnecessary increase in energy rates only harms its members and takes away their ability to spend money on necessary, more important matters.
If HB19-1313 passes, customers who cannot choose their electricity provider will pay for worker re-training programs and compliance costs, which will include building new generation capacity, storage capacity, and any new transmission and distribution lines.
This won’t be cheap. Utility bills will go up. Captive Xcel Energy customers are searching for a friend at the state capitol because it isn’t Speaker Becker or Senator Winter. We can’t afford to let the legislature give the monopoly a blank check.
(Excerpt) Read more at coratepayers.org ...
Xcel is a Minneapolis- based monopoly ...
Lefties dream about intermittent, not reliable electrical production that does not work when the wind does not blow ( or blows too hard ) and when the sun is not shining..
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Oh F****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great, I guess I will have to buy a g-d damned backup generator now...
I wonder what the odds are that this will pass.
Every day it becomes more obvious that we can not coexist with these people.
Coexist with people who want to destroy our security, prosperity and freedom? I think not.
DUmmies control all three pieces.
Thus we need to push on some recalls.
Firewood is cheap.
I hate all of these people. I don’t believe a word any of them say.
Thankfully I only get nat gas from Xcel.
[ Firewood is cheap. ]
Get a wood gas generator, use the wood gas to power muh electric generator....
If I lived in the country I could probably sell electricity to my neighbors..
That’s a very good idea.
“Firewood is cheap”.
If there are no laws against burning/polluting the air where you live.
What do you do if they ban wood burning?
Y’all are going to be like us here in the Philippines. As an example, last night we had a brownout from 2 am to about 7 am. The at 10:30 am brownout again for 30 minutes. This week we had brownouts almost nightly and several times during the day. Granted, these are diesel generator power stations, but wind and solar are even less reliable. Have fun folks and buy a generator.
I suggest you install a double throw switch so that when you have electric supply issues you can isolate your house from the grid and use the generator without having to run extension cords all over the house.
Double throws isolates the electric co. line at your fuse box so that your generator is not feeding the grid but allows you to use all your lights and outlets as if the grid was on. When power comes back you just turn off your generator and switch back to the grid.
does not blow ( or blows too hard )...
Neither is good!
They're going to run me out of this state.
That sounds like good advice and definitely worth knowing about. Thanks.
“They’re going to run me out of this state”.
Then when they totally ruin Colorado, the same people will follow.
CO will be buying electricity from AZ just like CA did. And then they will sue the electricity company for making a profit from it, again, just like CA did.
No, we can't.
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