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File #: 25-570    Version: Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 10/9/2025 In control: Council Work Session
On agenda: 10/27/2025 Final action:
Title: Review of Draft Decision and Order and Draft Resolution Making an Administrative Change in The Colorado Springs Utilities' Open Access Transmission Tariff Presenter: Travas Deal, Chief Executive Officer, Colorado Springs Utilities Tristan Gearhart, Chief Planning and Finance Officer, Colorado Springs Utilities David Beckett, Senior Attorney, City Attorney's Office - Utilities Division
Attachments: 1. 2026 Rate Case - OATT Administrative change Resolution, 2. 2026_Draft DO_OATT-Administrative-10-27-25, 3. 2026_DO_OATT-Administrative-10-28-25, 4. 2026 Rate Case - Final OATT Tariffs
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Review of Draft Decision and Order and Draft Resolution Making an Administrative Change in The Colorado Springs Utilities' Open Access Transmission Tariff

Presenter:
Travas Deal, Chief Executive Officer, Colorado Springs Utilities
Tristan Gearhart, Chief Planning and Finance Officer, Colorado Springs Utilities
David Beckett, Senior Attorney, City Attorney's Office - Utilities Division

Summary:
The City Attorney's Office - Utilities Division will present a Decision and Order and Resolution for Colorado Springs Utilities' Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) Administrative Change Filing based upon the October 14, 2025, public hearing held for Colorado Springs Utilities' OATT Administrative Change Filing filed on September 9, 2025.

Background:
By Resolution No. 14-25, dated January 28, 2025, City Council adopted, among other things, modifications to the Large Generator Interconnection Procedures (LGIP) section of the Colorado Springs Utilities' OATT. The updated OATT LGIP section went into effect on February 1, 2025. Utilities Staff observed the outside date for the allowable extension in requested Commercial Operation Date inadvertently reflected a date of December 31, 2027, which should have been December 31, 2029.

On September 9, 2025, Colorado Springs Utilities filed the OATT Administrative Change Filing, including a resolution, tariff sheets, and all supporting documentation for the proposed change.

In accordance with the City Code of the City of Colorado Springs ? 12.1.108, copies of the filing were available for public inspection in the City Clerk office beginning on September 9, 2025. Utilities filed supplemental information to the 2026 Rate Case on October 1, 2025, and October 9, 2025. Notices of the proposed changes were provided by publication in The Gazette on September 9, 2025, and October 3, 2025. The OATT Administrative Change Filing was also posted on the Colorado Springs Utilities' website at www.csu.org, and electronic...

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