Source: The Denver Post
Clients: Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club
Author: Tyler Comings
October 2021
Senior Researcher Tyler Comings filed testimony on Xcel's Colorado's Energy Resource Plan (ERP), focusing on the utility's decisions for two of its coal units--Comanche unit 3 and Pawnee. Mr. Comings' testimony found that earlier retirement of Comanche unit 3 and earlier conversion of Pawnee were lower cost. He provided inputs to modeling performed by Dr. Maria Roumpani at Strategen Consulting which quantified more than $1 billion in savings (including carbon costs) from their alternative plan compared to Xcel's ERP.