Posted on 02/15/2016 3:03:41 PM PST by george76
Across all sectors of Colorado the cost of electricity has skyrocketed more than 67 percent between 2001 and 2014, easily exceeding median income growth and the expected rate of inflation .
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For all sectors between 2001 and 2014, the cost per kilowatthour jumped from just over 6 cents to more than 10 cents, or 67.11 percent.
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the data for the remaining sectors emphasizes the double impact that increased energy costs have in the form of rapidly escalating electricity rates on Colorado ratepayers, who see not only their own personal energy costs rise, but are hit a second time by commercial, industrial, and transportation charges that are "baked into" the cost of providing goods and services that are passed on to consumers.
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The best explanation for this confounding upward trend in utility bills nationwide is the Obama's administration's war on coal. Colorado, alas, was well ahead of the curve on the war on coal, which explains much of why the state's rate increases are presently so much greater than the nationwide average...
Part of the war on coal, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized the Clean Power Plan in August 2015.
The policy battle over the EPA's Clean Power Plan, and the future of Colorado's electricity rates, rests upon multi-state legal challenges to the agency's authority that just last week resulted in a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court. That decision was overshadowed, however, by the subsequent death of Justice Antonin Scalia days later, leaving the legal challenge in turmoil given the SCOTUS' delicate and likely 4-4 ideological split and the contentious election year battle over nominations to replace Scalia.
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commercial electricity rates for Colorado have seen a 77.78 percent increase from 2001 to 2014, jumping from 5.67 cents per kilowatthour to 10.08 cents.
(Excerpt) Read more at energy.i2i.org ...
Thanks for the good information.
It’s amazing how much coal is in Colorado.
My Grandfather graduated from CU Law school in 1904 and was a Mineral and Water attorney in Salida, Del Norte and Alamosa.
Well that doping industry out to cover a part of the job losses and smoking it will make the pain disappear for the rest of the job losers and general public ... remember tok’n aint smok’n!
Thanks zer0, thanks alot for the rate increase.
“Across all sectors of Colorado the cost of electricity has skyrocketed more than 67 percent between 2001 and 2014, easily exceeding median income growth and the expected rate of inflation .”
That’s every where and it’s all a scam. It’s all about forcing
people to sign on to 1-5 year contracts. On a typical no
contract account with Reliant Energy I was paying 13 cents
kwh. Then they offered me their “great deal” of 10 cents kwh. So I looked around and found it at 4 cents kwh.
somewhere else but that was only with a 1 year contract.
Of course that’s here in Texas where market competition is
allowed it may not be so in Colorado.
“Obama wants all to live in a project.”
Only the select few he deems worthy to live.
As they say gas, a$$, or grass, no body rides fer free, 10-4?!!!
Yes. This has been orchestrated to bring the cost of conventionally generated electricity up to the cost of "renewable" electricity sources (wind, solar) so the latter can come closer to competing in the marketplace.
Of course, the nits pushing this don't understand that the power source has to be constant and reliable, too, nor do they care. They have eliminated much of the industry which would have used the electricity anyway.
If they just started burning Pot at their Power Plants, they could kill two Birds with one Stoner.
I found this interesting. From a recent report that I just read:
Finally, the discussion of energy security would not be complete without addressing the demand side.
While issues of energy conservation, energy efficiency, and demand reduction are largely out of scope for
this installment of the QER, they are nonetheless relevant for energy security. Figure 4-1 shows U.S. energy demand as projected by EIA through 2040. These projections indicate that U.S. liquid fuel demand is expected
to grow through 2018 and then begin a slow decline for the remainder of the period. In contrast, EIA projects
a steady growth through the projection period for both electricity and natural gas. However, it should be
noted that EIA’s projections do not consider regulations that are not yet finalized. Thus, EIA projections do not
account for electricity supply and demand changes likely to occur from implementation of the Environmental
Protection Agency’s “Clean Power Plan,†because it has not yet been finalized.
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/04/f22/QER-ALL%20FINAL_0.pdf
(sections 4-3)
http://www.nerc.com/AboutNERC/keyplayers/Documents/ERO_Enterprise_Operating_Model_Feb2014.pdf
ping to 29
Short term forcast (not including Clean air act impact)
http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/
https://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/tables_ref.cfm#supplement
EPA Clean Power Plan:
http://www.epa.gov/cleanpowerplan/fact-sheet-energy-efficiency-clean-power-plan
Supreme Court Stay on EPA CPP:
Thanks, HollyB for those links!
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