CU electrical bills are expected to be higher this summer. Here’s why (paywalled article, so I didn’t actually read it.
The first sentence, the teaser that Gannett thinks will get me to sign up for its little four-page broadsheet “newspaper”‘s online version, says higher fuel costs.
Note the story below though: Higher population. One reason.
Another reason: Industrialization of the area and those loverly, loverly LLM-building “data centers” going in everywhere.
Another reason: State constitutional amendments that say that X% of energy generation must come from unreliable and expensive sources like wind and solar. Which means that to keep within the guidelines, power companies have to cut fossil fuel production, the denominator, so that the limited top number meets that constitutional mandate.
So why is it? Let a 23-year-old only writing here for a while and hoping to move up to a real city explain it.
Presumably, somewhere below the fold, we get the Trump and War in Iran. Or maybe I am just cynical.
