Colorado PUC and the Pueblo Coal Plant: Legal issues 2006

These pages link to testimony and legal documents filed in hearings related to the construction of the Pueblo Coal plant. Most of the filings were done by Clean Energy Action.

See Legal issues for 2004-2005

August 2006: Colorado ratepayers propose Concentrating Solar Power as an alternative to Xcel's Pueblo Coal plant. Unlike most utilities, which issue corporate bonds for new power plants, Xcel has proposed that Colorado ratepayers finance the 1.5 billion dollar coal plant. This testimony proposed that concentrating solar would be a better investment, avoiding future increases in fossil fuel cost as well as pollution liability. Testimony

April 2006: Transmission Lines - Post-Hearing Statement
On the subject of Xcel's PUC application for permission to construct new transmission lines for its coal plants in Pueblo. Statement

March 2006: Transmission Lines - Motion on Likelihood of Construction
A motion asking the PUC to consider the significant cost of construction of transmission lines in the event that the Comanche III coal plant is not built. Motion

January 2006: Opening Brief in Opposition
This is the file by Citizens for Clean Air and Water in Pueblo and Clean Energy Action. tHe Defendant is the Air Pollution Control Division, Colorado Department of Public Health. The brief challenges Xcel's permit to build the Comanche III coal plant in Pueblo on the basis that the company is already violating clean air laws with its two existing Pueblo coal plants. The brief also raises environmental justice issues. Brief (191 Kb)

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