Who Regulates Xcel Energy in Colorado? Meet the PUC
If you’ve never thought about the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, you’re probably in good company. “PUC” sounds like the kind of acronym buried halfway through a government document you definitely weren’t planning to read.
But the decisions made at the PUC can show up in a place that’s much harder to ignore: your monthly energy bill.
From how much utilities can charge customers to who pays for new energy infrastructure, the PUC plays a major role in Colorado’s energy system. And right now, as data centers create enormous new electricity demands for our state, decisions before the Commission could affect Coloradans for decades.
100 Elected Leaders ask Colorado PUC to protect customers, communities and Colorado's climate goals from the impacts of data centers
100 elected leaders sent a letter to Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) asking regulators to ensure that large customers like data centers pay for the full cost of new and existing infrastructure used to serve them, make the Clean Transition Tariff the simplest and fastest option to receive electric service and require transparency and reject Xcel's proposal to allow for secret contracts.