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This case would raise the natural gas delivery part of your Xcel Colorado bill; it has not been decided yet.
+$8a month
Xcel Energy Colorado
Investor-owned utility (Public Service Co of Colorado), regulated by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. The average Colorado home pays about $101 a month for electricity (EIA, 2024).
1 pending rate case, about $8 a month more if approved
That is the ask, not the outcome: commissions usually approve less than the utility requests. Each case below links its docket and sources.
$101
average Colorado home today (EIA, 2024)
$108
if everything pending is approved as asked
+$8
a month
The ask, not the outcome. Your own bill scales with your usage; a home using twice the state average would see roughly twice the change.
Pending
Decided
Your Xcel Colorado electric base rate went up about 5 dollars a month starting with your late August 2026 bill.
+$5a month
How to have a say
Rate cases are decided by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, which takes written comments on every docket and holds public hearings on the big ones. Comment deadlines and hearing dates are on each case page above when we have them. The office that argues for households in these cases is the Colorado Office of the Utility Consumer Advocate; its filings are the plain-English version of the utility's numbers.
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Corrections and tips: [email protected]. Every figure links to its source on the case page.