Public comment hearing held on Xcel Energy’s Mountain Energy Project; no decision at session

A public comment hearing on Xcel Energy’s Mountain Energy Project was held on the record before the Public Utilities Commission, during which the presiding commissioner said no final decision would be made at the session and that an evidentiary hearing and a draft commission decision will precede any vote.

The project application seeks a certificate of public convenience and necessity to site compression and liquefied natural gas components intended to provide supplemental supply to a mountain community, a company representative summarized at the start of the hearing. The application and related filings were referenced on the record; parties told the commission they had filed a settlement agreement in July and that rounds of testimony…