What’s Likely to Change at Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission
By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project
Likely changes to the Public Utilities Commission
As I write this, the ultimate fate of the Public Utilities Commission sunset bill, HB26-1326 (the first link below), is unknown. I think that its becoming law is solid enough that we can wrap up what changes to this important unelected body we will see.
Toward that end, I present you a couple of references which make a decent attempt at hitting endpoints on the ideological spectrum. Link 2 is a wrap up report by the Independence Institute’s energy policy writer Sarah Montalbano. Link 3 is to a contemporaneous article by the Colorado Sun’s Mark Jaffe.
I’ll leave it to you to read through either or, what’s better, both. There are some things that stuck out t...

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