Colorado regulators overrule Elbert County, approve Xcel Energy Power Pathway power lines.

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    "title": "Colorado regulators overrule Elbert County, approve Xcel Energy Power Pathway power lines.",
    "excerpt": "Colorado regulators overrule Elbert County, approve Xcel Energy Power Pathway power lines.\n\nThe power lines will get electricity from near Pueblo to the Denver area through a part of Colorado that is not serviced by Xcel.\n\nELBERT COUNTY, Colo. - Xcel Energy will be able to build power lines through a part of the state that does not receive energy from Xcel.\n\nColorado's Public Utilities Commission this week overruled Elbert County commissioners and approved Xcel Energy's application to build 140-foot transmission lines through the county as part of a statewide Power Pathway project designed to move electricity from near Pueblo to the Denver metro area.\n\nThe decision grants Xcel authority to construct the power lines along a stretch of Highway 86, even though Elbert County had denied the company's permits.\n\n\"Clearly no one takes this job to make these sorts of decisions,\" said PUC Commissioner Megan Gilman.\n\nThe Power Pathway project already holds a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity from the commission. PUC commission counsel Ruth Harper said in the hearing that blocking the segment would carry consequences beyond Elbert County.\n\n\"[PUC] Staff concludes that preventing Segment 5 [the Elbert County part] from moving forward would make electricity dirtier, less reliable and more expensive for customers across the state,\" Harper said.\n\nCommissioner Eric Blank said the...",
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