Author: Tyler Comings
May 2024
Principal Economist Tyler Comings filed testimony before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission on Tri-State Generation and Transmission’s resource plan. Mr. Comings discussed how Tri-State failed to justify its planned gas plant investment, including by ignoring key costs and risks of carbon capture storage (CCS) at the plant. He also discussed how Tri-States proposed requests for proposals (RFPs) for its upcoming new resource procurement were too limited; and as a result provided recommended changes to expand the resource types that could bid.