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WestlinnDuck
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Just like the $7500 federal tax credit to rich people who bought a $90,000 Tesla. Remember all the federal and state subsidies to build gas stations as the nation transitioned from horses to horse power? Me either.
https://coloradosun.com/2020/12/08/electric-vehicle-rebates-colorado-xcel/
Xcel Energy and the Polis administration hashed out the shape of a $30 million electric vehicle rebate program, the most generous in the country, behind closed doors. And then in September state officials presented it to utility regulators as their own...
But the late addition of the $30 million rebate program, apparently at the suggestion of administration officials, to the $100 million transportation electrification plan Xcel filed with the PUC last May, has sparked concern from consumer advocates and lawmakers.
“It was filed at the last minute,” said Cindy Schonhaut, executive director of the state Office of Consumer Counsel. “There is no evidence in the record on how the rebates would work, who would get them.”
The OCC was informed of the rebate plan the day before it was filed with the PUC as part of the written testimony of Keith Hay, director of policy at the Colorado Energy Office, the agency that took the lead in developing the administration’s rebate proposal.
State Sen. Chris Hansen, a Denver Democrat and a co-sponsor of 2019 legislation that promoted charging infrastructure and enabled Xcel to develop its plan, voiced concern about “a situation of escalating costs.”
“The PUC will have to make that decision … making sure you don’t have a program that is going to load inappropriate costs on customers,” Hansen said.
Alice Jackson, CEO of Xcel’s Colorado subsidiary, said in a statement to The Sun that “while the timing of this presentation in the regulatory proceeding is a bit unusual, it shows the agility in which, at times, we must respond to market signals and economic realities.”
Getting more EVs on the road has been a Polis priority. One of his first executive orders, in January 2019, set a target of 940,000 EVs on Colorado roads by 2030. There are about 1.8 million passenger vehicles licensed in Colorado.
EV sales have accounted for 3% of new car sales in Colorado through September, down from 5.7% in 2018, according to the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association.
https://coloradosun.com/2020/12/08/electric-vehicle-rebates-colorado-xcel/
Xcel Energy and the Polis administration hashed out the shape of a $30 million electric vehicle rebate program, the most generous in the country, behind closed doors. And then in September state officials presented it to utility regulators as their own...
But the late addition of the $30 million rebate program, apparently at the suggestion of administration officials, to the $100 million transportation electrification plan Xcel filed with the PUC last May, has sparked concern from consumer advocates and lawmakers.
“It was filed at the last minute,” said Cindy Schonhaut, executive director of the state Office of Consumer Counsel. “There is no evidence in the record on how the rebates would work, who would get them.”
The OCC was informed of the rebate plan the day before it was filed with the PUC as part of the written testimony of Keith Hay, director of policy at the Colorado Energy Office, the agency that took the lead in developing the administration’s rebate proposal.
State Sen. Chris Hansen, a Denver Democrat and a co-sponsor of 2019 legislation that promoted charging infrastructure and enabled Xcel to develop its plan, voiced concern about “a situation of escalating costs.”
“The PUC will have to make that decision … making sure you don’t have a program that is going to load inappropriate costs on customers,” Hansen said.
Alice Jackson, CEO of Xcel’s Colorado subsidiary, said in a statement to The Sun that “while the timing of this presentation in the regulatory proceeding is a bit unusual, it shows the agility in which, at times, we must respond to market signals and economic realities.”
Getting more EVs on the road has been a Polis priority. One of his first executive orders, in January 2019, set a target of 940,000 EVs on Colorado roads by 2030. There are about 1.8 million passenger vehicles licensed in Colorado.
EV sales have accounted for 3% of new car sales in Colorado through September, down from 5.7% in 2018, according to the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association.
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