“AARP Colorado members and our advocacy volunteers fought hard against these unfair and unreasonable rate increases and let the PUC and Xcel know that enough is enough,” Bob Murphy, AARP Colorado State Director, said. Utility rates are an essential pocketbook issue for Colorado residents 50-plus and their families, many of whom struggle to pay their utility bills along with other household expenses like food and medicine – especially as inflation pushes prices higher. That is about 34 percent of what Xcel wanted to charge consumers. The PUC approved a $64.2 million allowance for the energy giant that is fixture on the Forbes 500 list. AARP Colorado also ran an aggressive ad campaign to get Xcel customers to go online, call and write the PUC to oppose the rate hike. Thousands of AARP members opposed Xcel’s proposed hike and submitted thousands of postal cards to the PUC. AARP Colorado’s opposition to a proposed $188.6 million hike in base rates for natural gas by Xcel Energy resulted in a Public Utilities Commission decision to reduce the rate hike to $64.2 million, a savings of nearly $124 million for Xcel customers in Colorado.
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