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For residential consumers, the average cost of an outage ranges from about $3.75 for a short one-hour weekday outage in the summer to about $8 for a longer, eight-hour weekday outage.  For business consumers, the cost varies by sector and size of business.  For smaller businesses, the costs vary from $1,200 for a short one-hour weekday outage in the summer to about $6,300 for a long eight-hour weekday outage in the winter.  For large industrial customers, these numbers are $8,200 for a one-hour summer outage and about $105,000 for an eight-hour winter episode.
      


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BOARD MEMBERS
  • Mac McLennan
    Tri-State G&T, Chair
  • Roy Palmer
    Xcel Energy
  • Matthew Heimerich
    Crowley County Commissioner
  • Skip Arnold
    Energy Outreach Colorado
  • Gary Stone
    Aquila
  • David Lock
    Colorado Association of Municipal
  • Paul Fillion
    Vail Resorts
  • Bruce Smith - Executive Director
ABOUT THE FORUM

The Colorado Energy Forum works to educate Colorado citizens on the need for increased investment in Colorado’s energy infrastructure so that economic growth, job creation and conservation can be maintained in our state for future generations.

HISTORY:

Individual energy companies that operate in Colorado spend considerable time and resources planning for the future needs of their individual electricity consumers.  But no organization in the state is charged with critically examining the "big picture" of our electricity future, regardless of service territory, regulatory jurisdiction or competitive needs. 

That is why Bruce Smith, who until recently served for 13 years as Director of Colorado Public Utility Commission, launched the Colorado Energy Forum.  The mission of the  Forum?  To ask, and seek to answer, this question:  what must we do today to ensure that all Colorado families, businesses and communities have affordable, reliable and environmental by sound sources of electricity in the decades ahead?

In assembling the Forum, Bruce has joined energy producers with energy consumers.  Serving on the Forum's Board of Trustees will be representatives from every type of utility that produces electrical power in Colorado, as well as the state's leading advocate of low-income energy assistance, a highly regarded county commissioner and a representative from a large electric consumer.

More sectors and communities will be brought into work with the Colorado Energy Forum as it is built out, including renewable energy advocates, agricultural groups, landowners and others.

 

 

ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

OUTREACH

Based in Golden, the Colorado Energy Forum will operate as a 501(c)(3) educational foundation.

It is governed by a Board of Trustees and is led by Executive Director Bruce Smith.

Assuming the Forum achieves its tax-exempt status, donations to the Forum will be deductible as a charitable contribution.

For more information about the Forum, contact Bruce Smith at (303) 577-4622 or bruce@coloradoenergyforum.org.

The Forum will be reaching out to involve representatives of affected sectors and stakeholders that will include:

  • Agriculture
  • Renewable energy
  • Fossil energy
  • Energy efficiency
  • Landowners
  • Federal and state agency reps
  • Municipalities
  • Homebuilders/Construction
  • Office of Consumer Counsel
  • Regional Groups

 

 

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