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Average Xcel Energy customer lost power doubled in 2024, report says

Colorado Public Utilities Commission report says complaints about Xcel's customer service are also on the rise.

A multi-block section along South Broadway and Lincoln Street in Denver is one of the areas that's been plagued by power outages over the last year. A state reports says the time the average Xcel Energy customer lost power in 2024 doubled.

(Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

A drilling derrick silhouetted by the setting sun in Dacono in 2014.

Chevron to lay off 125 employees in Denver office starting July 1

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Sakhawat Hussain, Ann Hussain, Sally Engen and Jason Ephraim, who are concerned about fracking planned nearby, talk about the issue at the Lakehouse at Southshore overlooking the Aurora Reservoir in Aurora on Thursday, May 1, 2025. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)

Fights persist over oil and gas drilling near Front Range homes six years after reform law “changed permitting”

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FILE – The Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo., July 27, 2018 (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Trump’s new energy order puts states’ climate laws in the crosshairs of the Department of Justice

By The Associated Press

April 11, 2025 at 10:57 a.m.

Trump has declared a “national energy emergency," which could target state climate change laws.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright visits the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory campus in Golden, Colorado, on April 3, 2025. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

U.S. Department of Energy identifies NREL campus near Golden as potential site for massive data center

By Noelle Phillips

April 4, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

Colorado already is asking how it will be able to provide enough electricity for the...

Gasoline storage facility at Holly Energy Partners Sinclair terminal in Henderson, Colorado, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Energy company wants to nearly double amount of gas it pipes into Adams County, bringing more air pollution

By Noelle Phillips

March 30, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

Holly Energy Partners has taken the unusual step to request a public hearing on its...

Rancher Bob Bamber leans against his truck near a power substation across the road from his family’s ranch outside Lamar on March 10, 2025. Bamber is frustrated by the lack of information from the federal Department of Energy about proposed plans to expand the electric grid from southern New Mexico into southeastern Colorado, near his property. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Colorado ranchers, with Boebert’s backing, are in uproar over feds’ high-voltage power corridor: “The trust is broken”

By John Aguilar

March 20, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

Resistance is building in southeastern Colorado to a proposed corridor for a high-voltage transmission line...

Large transmission lines can be seen going to the horizon that are all part of the Power Pathway project just south of Brush, Colorado on Jan. 8, 2025. Workers with GRD Construction are putting in the structures, cables, and lines that are part of Xcel's Colorado Power Pathway, a $1.7B electric transmission project. The project is slated to take three years to complete. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Customers to face higher bills as Xcel Energy shells out more for natural gas

By Judith Kohler

March 18, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

The wholesale price of natural gas has gone up, which means the monthly bills of...

Gas flares into the sky at the Suncor Energy oil refinery in Commerce City, Colorado, on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Suncor plans to take down a 100-foot flare stack in project to upgrade Commerce City refinery

By Noelle Phillips

March 13, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

The $16 million project is scheduled to start later this year, pending approval from the...

Utilities and businesses across Colorado are wrangling with the uncertainty around federal energy loans and grants remain frozen by the Trump administration. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)

Federal funding freeze stalls energy-related projects across Colorado

By Judith Kohler

March 6, 2025 at 11:07 a.m.

As billions of dollars in federal funds for energy projects nationwide remain frozen, projects by...

A Denver District Court judge has upheld a state order against a Denver-based oil and gas company's challenge. But K.P. Kauffman Co. says it will appeal the ruling.

Court rules against oil, gas company in lawsuit against state regulators

By Judith Kohler

February 18, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

A Denver District Court judge has upheld an order by state regulators against an oil...

Colorado Supreme Court to decide whether Boulder’s landmark climate-change lawsuit against Suncor, Exxon can proceed

By Noelle Phillips

February 10, 2025 at 12:28 p.m.

The companies’ attorneys will argue that greenhouse gas emissions released by oil and gas production...

What will Trump’s “Unleashing American Energy” mean for Colorado, nation?

By Judith Kohler

February 9, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

The "drill, baby, drill" mantra could become reality if President Donald Trump's executive orders succeed...

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