Client: Sierra Club
Author: Tyler Comings
December 2023
Senior Researcher Tyler Comings (along with Telos Energy and Strategen Consulting) assisted Sierra Club and NRDC in comments on Xcel Colorado's Electric Resource Plan. The comments argued for rejecting a proposed biomass project and instead adding more solar and battery resources than what Xcel included in its preferred plan. The comments also discussed the risks of Xcel's planned new gas procurement: in particular the utility's assumption that new gas units could become carbon-free, but not incorporating all of the costs required to achieve that status.