{"id":818,"date":"2023-07-11T05:41:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=818"},"modified":"2023-07-11T05:41:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T12:41:19","slug":"xcel-rate-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Xcel Rate Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Xcel Energy customers across most of the state are getting another chance to weigh in on a potential hike in their electric bills\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Nex Xcel Rate Hike Request\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 :35)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-58740bd5-906f-4a8b-86bd-a8aa696ea7b6\" href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230711-New-Xcel-Rate-Hike-Request.mp3\">230711-New-Xcel-Rate-Hike-Request<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/230711-New-Xcel-Rate-Hike-Request.mp3\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-58740bd5-906f-4a8b-86bd-a8aa696ea7b6\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>State regulators want the utility to justify why it needs millions of dollars more revenue, on top of already-record profits.&nbsp; Xcel wanted to increase electric rates by some 312 million dollars, which works out to about 7 dollars added on to the average residential customer\u2019s bill.&nbsp; Then last month, Xcel made a deal with the state\u2019s energy office and consumer advocates, for a much smaller increase, between 48 million and 97 million bucks.&nbsp; Now, they reportedly have to narrow down that range, to a single figure.&nbsp; Xcel started making its case to regulators at a hearing on Monday.&nbsp; There\u2019s another hearing, that you can monitor on Zoom, coming up from 4 to 6 this afternoon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xcel Energy customers across most of the state are getting another chance to weigh in on a potential hike in their electric bills\u2026 (Nex Xcel Rate Hike Request\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 :35) State regulators want the utility to justify why it needs millions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rnrnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rockymountainnewsnetwork.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}