Useful Resources and Helpful Links

• City Council Background Information
• Correspondence from Xcel Energy
• Related Websites
• Other Documents

City Council Background Information with Consultant Reports

• May 21, 2012 - Climate Action Plan Analysis Report from RMI
• May 2012 - Boulder's comments on PUC docket filed by Xcel Energy to limit Boulder customers' participation in SolarRewards and other incentive programs
• Aug. 16, 2011 - Feasibility Study by RBI
• Aug. 16, 2011 - Boulder Municipal Utility Business Plan prepared by RBI
• Aug. 1, 2011 -  Community Phone Survey Results - August 2011
• July 28, 2011 - Energy Baseline Report prepared by Nexant
• July 27, 2011 - Analysis of Boulder's Cost Model by UtiliPoint for Xcel Energy
• July 13, 2011 - Localization Portfolio Standard: Electricity and Natural Gas - prepared by Local Power
• Jan. 14, 2011 - Draft Work Plan for City Council Consideration
• Jan. 14, 2011 - Work Plan Templates
• Sept. 7, 2010 - Proposed Phase 1 Approach and Process
• Aug. 17, 2010 - Clean Energy Plan Scoping Proposal
• July 30, 2010 - Agenda Item/Memo for Aug. 3, 2o1o meeting
• July 20, 2010 - Proposed Ordinance 7747 and Proposed Ordinance 7748
• July 6, 2010 - Agenda Item
• July 1, 2010 - Valmont Repowering Study
• June 3, 2010 - Updates on Side Agreements
• June 3, 2010 - Study Session Memorandum
• June 3, 2010 - Decarbonization Team - Life Without a Franchise Memorandum
• June 1, 2010 - Agenda Item and Related Documents
• April 13, 2010 - Study Session Memorandum
• March 18, 2010 - Study Session Memorandum on Municipalization
• Feb. 14, 2007 - Electric Municipalization Project Administrative and Operational Report
• October 2005 - R.W. Beck Preliminary Feasibility Study

Correspondence From Xcel Energy

• June 3, 2010 - Temporary Extension Agreement

Related Websites

The following links are provided to enhance the community discussion about the possible creation of a local electric utility. A few are City of Boulder sites, but many are external sites, over which the city has no content control. The city cannot verify the accuracy of information in external sites. If you have questions about information provided in one of these sites, please contact the organization that created it directly.

• American Public Power Association
  
  • Document - "Public Power Costs Less"
  • Straight Answers to Public Power
• Boulder Chamber of Commerce information on the city's municipalization exploration study
• City of Boulder Energy Efficiency Upgrades - Energy Performance Contract
• Colorado Association of Municipal Utilities
• University of Colorado at Boulder's Learn More about Climate site - Climate Change and Colorado's Future
• U.S. Dept. of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy - Energy Savers website
• Center for ReSource Conservation
• Climate Action Plan Programs - city offered energy demand reduction and efficiency programs for homes and businesses
• Colorado Association of Municipal Utilities
• Colorado Independent Energy Association
• Energy and Climate Action Plan policy items
• EnergyShouldBe.org -Energy should be like today’s US energy system only without all the problems and available to everyone on the planet - no exceptions.
• Boulder Matters Community Meetings
• Colorado Association of Municipal Utilities (CAMU) - a non-profit organization that provides legislative representation, training and information for the 29 cities and towns in Colorado that own and operate their own electric system.
• Colorado Green Business Guild - (CGBG) A non-profit trade organization representing a wide range of leaders in  the green building movement
• Recharge Colorado - Colorado Governor's Energy Office
• Clean Energy Action - A group of citizens passionate about reducing reliance on fossil fuels is exploring other options for providing Boulder’s electricity, including municipalization. Clean Energy Action - which works to accelerate the transition from fossil-fuels (mostly coal) to renewables in the electric generation industry - is part of that effort.
• RenewablesYES.org - A Boulder group dedicated to helping Boulder achieve its best possible Energy Future.
• Xcel Energy (Public Service Company of Colorado)

Other Documents

• Disruptive Challenges: Financial Implications and Strategic Responses to a Changing Retail Electric Business - Released by the Edison Electric Institute in January 2013 - Report on how recent technological and economic changes are expected to challenge and transform the electric utility industry.
• Beyond Single-Subcriber Solar: Recommendations for encourging distributed solar generation in Boulder, Colorado, under two future utility-ownership scenarios - March 2013 - Created by CU Master's candidates Brad Seaman, Shawn Olson, and Lindsay Ofrias - supported by RASEI.
• NREL's Renewable Electricity Futures Study:
  • Volume 1 -  Exploration of High-Penetration Renewable Energy Futures
  • Volume 2 - Renewable Electricity Generation and Storage Technologies
  • Volume 3 - End-use Electricity Demand
  • Volume 4 - Bulk Electric Power Systems: Operations and Transmission Planning
•  Community Phone Survey Results - August 2011  
• IBM Smarter Cities Challenge - SmartGridCity Report
  
  • Inventory of SmartGridCity Infrastructure memo to IBM Smarter Cities Challenge Team
  •  IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge - Boulder Report memo to City Council
  •  IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge Report on Boulder's SmartGridCity Infrastructure
• Staff's responses to Councilmember Cowles' questions posed on July 14, 2011
• Usted Tiene el Poder de Decidir
•  Posibilidad: Trabajar con Xcel Energy
•  Posibilidad: Municipalizacion
•  Informational insert placed in the Camera and distributed around town on June 1, 2011
•  Community Guide - Version 1 - June 6, 2011 - Use this great resource to help you understand the project and its basic information.
•  Community Guide - Version 2 - August 2011
  
•  2010 Colorado Utilities Report  - A report of the Colorado Governor's Energy Office

Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 09:30