Glustrom v. Colorado Public Utilities Commission

{1 With the approval of the Public Utilities Commission ("PUC"), in 2005 the Public Service Company of Colorado ("Xcel") began constructing a coal-fired electric power unit known as Comanche 8. When Xeel sought to recover a portion of its construction costs nearly four years later in a rate proceeding, Leslie Glustrom intervened. Glustrom sought to introduce testimony that Xeel acted improperly and, consequently, should not recover its costs. The PUC excluded most of her testimony, a ruling that lustrom challenged. Glustrom separately challenged the depreciation rate and the possibility that…