No on Xcel's Rate Increase Request

I urge the Public Utilities Commission to vote no on Xcel Energy's Natural Gas filing of December 29, 2025. An 11.4% increase is beyond laughable for a company with a net income of $1.915 billion from September 2024-September 2025.

It is also completely unwarranted given the recent outages across the front range and for not moving fast enough to produce energy with net zero emissions.

I also call on the PUC to halt new or existing data center construction projects. Data centers for AI applications are harmful to our environment, drive up consumer prices, and are a subsidy to giant corporations at the public's expense.

Falsifying records

A field crew reported power shut offs 3 hours after they actually occurred. Xcel's investigation of my complaint that the power cutoff resulted in damages concluded with "no documentation" showing that power was cut off at my house prematurely, but their own smart meter on my property shows clearly that power was shut off hours before the window that they indicated. They will not respond to emails and the PUC will not open an investigation on the list of Colorado and potential federal regulations that they violate doing this.

Xcel Charging to Read Meter After Switch to Smart Meter

We previously had a non communicating meter that Xcel charged us $11.84 a month to come out and physically read our meter. They swapped it out for a smart meter in November 2024. We have been billed $11.84 every month since November 2024, even though we have a smart meter and Xcel no longer sends anyone to read our meter.I have called Xcel’s customer service every month since December 2024 to tell them I’m still being charged the $11.84.Xcel had fixed the issue in October 2025 and took off all the previous months of $11.94, but the charge reappeared in…