Colorado regulators' push to electrification has a cost, and it exceeds the 2.5% raise in rates... by a HUGE amount. PowerGab hosts Jake Fogleman and Amy Cooke discuss what this will entail, how much it will likely end up costing, and if there's anything you can do to stop it.

Show Notes:

Colorado’s costly home heating plan

Xcel Energy Clean Heat Plan https://www.aoenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Hearing-Exhibit-101-Attachment-JWI-1.pdf

Black Hills Clean Heat Plan https://www.aoenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Black-Hills-Clean-Heat-Plan-2024-2028-.pdf

Atmos Clean Heat Plan https://www.aoenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Atmos-Clean-Heat-Plan-2024-2028.pdf

Notice Proposed Rule making includes instructions on when and where to submit comments (See highlighted section on the last two pages) https://www.aoenergy.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/C25-0517_25R-0309G_Open-NOPR.pdf

Does the EPA have the authority over one of Colorado's most reliable coal power plants, and whether or not it stays open? PowerGab hosts Jake Fogleman and Amy Cooke discuss this and more.

Show Notes:

OBBB

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/the-big-beautiful-bill-is-a-big-win-for-american-energy/

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-market-distorting-subsidies-for-unreliable-foreign%E2%80%91controlled-energy-sources/

https://www.cpr.org/2025/07/03/congress-passes-trump-big-beautiful-bill/

EPA and CSU’s Ray Nixon coal-fired power plant

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/16/2025-13342/air-plan-partial-approval-and-partial-disapproval-colorado-regional-haze-plan-for-the-second

https://www.cpr.org/2025/07/16/epa-moves-to-reject-colorado-plan-to-close-coal-power-plants/

Xcel Energy's upcoming energy project has transmission lines that cut across Elbert County in Colorado. However, some local residents have not agreed to let them, causing a threat of eminent domain and a court battle. PowerGab hosts Jake Fogleman and Amy Cooke talk with Elbert County Environmental Alliance member Kerry Jiblits.

Show Notes:

https://www.ecealliance.org

https://www.denver7.com/follow-up/elbert-county-commissioners-deny-permits-for-xcel-energys-power-pole-project

https://www.elbertcounty-co.gov/615/Xcel-Energy---Colorados-Power-Pathway-Pr

Colorado has a long history with nuclear energy... some of it good and some of it not so good. PowerGab Hosts Jake Fogleman and Amy Cooke have a conversation with US Navy Nuclear Propulsion Veteran Nathan Stout about that history and how it impacts energy policy today.

Show Notes:

https://i2i.org/a-critical-look-at-nuclear-energy-in-colorado-overcoming-our-past-to-secure-our-future/

A declining Colorado economy is beginning to have consequences against many of its own climate goals. What's behind this and what tax credits are going away? PowerGab Hosts Jake Fogleman and Amy Cooke discuss this and more.

Show Notes:

https://coloradosun.com/2025/06/19/colorado-green-tax-credits-cut-economic-forecast/

https://coloradosun.com/2025/06/25/colorado-clean-energy-project-cancellations/

Are green energy sources as economically friendly as they are being portrayed? Or are there other factors that make them not quite as green-friendly as marketed? PowerGab Hosts Jake Fogleman and Amy Cooke discuss this with Sarah Montalbano from the Center of the American Experiment.

Show Notes:

https://files.americanexperiment.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Shattered-Green-Dreams.pdf?v=1750106281&_gl=1*1vf43vr*_gcl_au*OTY3ODE4MDQ2LjE3NTA4NzExMjI.

Colorado's clean energy goals are turning out to have a high price tag. Is there a point and when will the Public Utilities Commission fight for ratepayers' rights? PowerGab Hosts Jake Foglem and Amy Cooke discuss this topic and more with David Thielen of Liberal and Loving It.

Show Notes:

https://liberalandlovingit.substack.com

https://coloradopuc24a0442e.substack.com/cp/165908249

https://liberalandlovingit.substack.com/p/my-comments-on-the-xcel-jts-proceeding

https://coloradopuc24a0442e.substack.com/cp/163935906

Regular listeners to PowerGab are encouraged to get a power generator. One listener not only took the advice, but they decided to make their own. Cory Gaines from the Colorado Accountability Project tells PowerGab Hosts Jake Fogleman and Amy Cooke just how he did it.

Show Notes:

https://coloradoaccountabilityproject.substack.com

Some Colorado News Publications have a particular framing on energy stories in the state. Is there a bias and what way does it lean? PowerGab Hosts Jake Fogleman and Amy Cooke discuss this with Cory Gaines from the Colorado Accountability Project.

Show Notes:

https://coloradoaccountabilityproject.substack.com

https://coloradoaccountabilityproject.substack.com/p/the-colorado-suns-disingenuous-reporting

https://www.cpr.org/2025/06/04/republican-budget-bill-utilities-energy-costs-impact/

Rogue surveillance devices have been discovered on Chinese made solar panels and batteries in the United States. Who is in control of your power? PowerGab Hosts Jake Fogleman and Amy Cooke discuss this along with Xcel's new time of use rate proposal and tax dollars being funneled to partisan groups.

Show Notes:

https://www.cpr.org/2025/05/20/xcel-peak-use-electricity-rates-spike/

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/rogue-communication-devices-found-on-chinese-made-solar-power-inverters/748242/

https://completecolorado.com/2025/04/30/environmental-ideologues-enjoying-the-colorado-taxpayer-dime/