Comments on: SHORTCHANGED: Xcel Customers Subsidize Solar Panel Owners https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/13/shortchanged-xcel-customers-subsidize-solar-panel-owners/ Colorado's Conservative Bully Pulpit Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:57:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 By: Colorado Peak Politics – SHORTCHANGED: Xcel Customers Subsidize Solar Panel Owners | Green energy https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/13/shortchanged-xcel-customers-subsidize-solar-panel-owners/#comment-3432 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 16:57:18 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15167#comment-3432 […] On Thursday, the Denver Business Journal reported on the fact that Xcel is required to rebate 10.5 cents per kilowatt hour to solar panel users for energy they contribute to the grid that is worth just 4.6 cents per kilowatt hour.  And who makes up the difference:  you guessed it – other ratepayers.  Other ratepayers not interested in fronting $ 30,000 for an average-sized solar panel install or entering into a risky lease agreement with one of the solar companies trying to exploit the federal tax loopholes designed to pick winners and losers in the energy industry. Read more… […]

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By: Roger May https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/13/shortchanged-xcel-customers-subsidize-solar-panel-owners/#comment-7880 Sun, 15 Sep 2013 13:08:24 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15167#comment-7880 Just another brick in the wall. Throw out these nonsensical boobs in public office. Start with the Friday-night-ideologues that call NREL their crown jewel. Yea, you Eddie Perlmutter.

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By: Todd Sargent https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/13/shortchanged-xcel-customers-subsidize-solar-panel-owners/#comment-7879 Sat, 14 Sep 2013 15:17:07 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15167#comment-7879 This scenario was set up by the state legislature and Gov. Ritter requiring the power companies to obtain a certain amount of their energy from renewable resources. Now, this year, the Dems and Hickenlooper doubled down on the policy, and forced the same deal on the rural people, too.

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By: SHORTCHANGED: Xcel Customers Subsidize Solar Panel Owners » greennewstweets.com https://coloradopeakpolitics.com/2013/09/13/shortchanged-xcel-customers-subsidize-solar-panel-owners/#comment-3430 Sat, 14 Sep 2013 03:47:51 +0000 http://coloradopeakpolitics.com/?p=15167#comment-3430 […] Green News Source- Click to read full article […]

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