WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) has announced the publication of a new report, Voices From Colorado’s Global Energy Settlement, an oral history of the groundbreaking 2016 negotiations involving 26 intervenors and three regulatory dockets.
The resulting agreement between Xcel Energy and the 26 stakeholders — covering dockets on rate reform, solar market expansion and renewable energy planning — has been well covered. But SEPA researchers saw an essential piece of the story that was missing. How did they do it, when, up until that point, other states and jurisdictions had failed? The report contains the compelling voices and insights of the people who spent long days and nights in a Denver conference room, looking for ways to overcome longstanding distrust and hammer out a series of compromises and new solutions.
Tom Figel of GRID Alternatives and Lindsey Stegall of the Colorado Energy Office also brought their differing views and perspectives to the narrative. A prologue by Tanuj Deora, SEPA’s Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer, provides a broader historical view of the negotiations, based on his experience as Director of the Colorado Energy Office from 2011 to 2012.
Voices From Colorado’s Global Energy Settlement: 26 Intervenors, 3 Dockets, 1 Historic Negotiation is available for download here.
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