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Public Hearing for the Consideration of a Resolution Regarding Setting Electric Rates for a Wind Power Tariff Within the Service Area of Colorado Springs Utilities
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From:
Jerry Forte, P.E., Chief Executive Officer, Colorado Springs Utilities
Summary:
At its December 9, 2014 formal City Council meeting, the City Council scheduled a public hearing for its regularly scheduled January 13, 2015 meeting to consider reinstating Colorado Springs Utilities' Wind Power - Electric Rate Schedule Tariff and to reflect in the rates the cost to sell 20,000 MWh of wind to customers. The rate is proposed to be effective January 14, 2015.
In accordance with the City Code of the City of Colorado Springs ? 12.1.107, Colorado Springs Utilities made its rate filing on December 9, 2014, published notice of the hearing in the Gazette on December 11, 2014, and mailed notice to electric customers outside City limits on December 12, 2014.
To minimize the amount of time customers will be without a wind product, Colorado Springs Utilities will request that City Council vote to suspend Part 4 (1) (c) of the Rules and Procedures of City Council, Post-Hearing Procedures for this rate hearing, waiving the requirement of a decision and order for the requested changes, and allowing those changes to be approved by motion and adoption of a resolution immediately after the rate hearing. In that event, the rate would become effective on and after January 14, 2015.
If the City Council does not vote to suspend Part 4 (1) (c) of the Rules and Procedures of City Council, Post-Hearing Procedures for this rate hearing, then a decision and order will be prepared and presented to the City Council at its January 26, 2015 work session. The City Council will be asked to vote on the resolution adopting the Wind Power tariff at its January 27, 2015 formal meeting. In that event, the rate would become effective on and after January 28, 2015.
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