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Colorado Springs pauses net‑metering changes after lengthy Utilities rate hearing
Summary
After a daylong public hearing, City Council removed proposed changes to net‑metering from the Colorado Springs Utilities 2026 rate case following extensive public comment and council questions about the proposal’s calculations and outreach.
City Council on Oct. 14 heard nearly nine hours of testimony on Colorado Springs Utilities’ proposed 2026 rate case, including a high‑profile plan to change how rooftop solar customers are billed.
Utilities staff told the council and a packed chamber that the city’s net‑metering program, which credits customers for excess solar generation and allows one‑for‑one carryover of kilowatt‑hours, increasingly under‑recovers the cost of serving those customers. Scott Sharola, manager of pricing and rates at Colorado Springs Utilities, said a consultant’s analysis of a stratified sample of net‑metering customers estimated a median under‑recovery of about $600 a year per solar customer and extrapolated that to…
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