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Boulder sees upside if the Colorado city breaks from Xcel Energy I StarTribune.com Page I of 3 <br />• Log In I Register I My accounts 1 Subscribe Digital -Home delivery I eEdition Search o All content Business listings Search r Site Index <br />StarTribune 1 business ss° %off <br />66 % Off Welding Classes <br />at Vesper College (Reg. <br />News Local Sports Business Politics Opinion Lifestyle Entertainment obituaries classifieds Autos Housing Jobs <br />Weekly ads Economy Your Money Top Workplaces Blogs r Columns Business Finder <br />Home > Business from the homepage <br />Boulder sees upside if the Colorado city breaks from traf c Tunnel in Minneapolis closed toeastbound <br />Xcel Energy Legislators take on proposal to legalize same -sex <br />marriage <br />Article by: wire services Updated. February 22, 2013 - 9:43 PM State Human Services Dept. criticized over <br />residences <br />But the march toward municipalization could be a long one, with no takeover of the city's <br />electrical distribution system until 2017. <br />3 comments O resize text O print buy reprints Recommend 11 <br />Twoot 1 E:7�1 <br />By DAVID SHAFFER dshaffer @startribune.com <br />more from business <br />city of Boulder, Colo., says it makes financial <br />Target 4Q hurt by Canada <br />sense to end Xcel Energy Inc.'s electric monopoly <br />is sense <br />nvestment, weak holiday <br />i <br />there and create a municipally owned power <br />Oil gets small boost from <br />company. <br />Us supply report <br />ADVERTISEMENT <br />A city economic analysis, released late Thursday, <br />AP NewsAlert <br />concluded that the city's 45,000 electric <br />most read most emailed most watched <br />customers could pay less "on day one" of <br />municipal ownership compared with the rates <br />Best Buy is laying off 400 at its Richfield <br />charged by Minneapolis -based Xcel. <br />headquarters <br />Cargill: Mississippi River locks and dams need <br />Researchers who examined various financial <br />maintenance badly <br />scenarios found "a very high likelihood" that <br />Target 4Q hurt by Canada investment, weak <br />municipalization would result in lower electric <br />holiday <br />rates even if the city relied increasingly on <br />Schafer: Cuts inevitable in Best Buy turnaround <br />renewable energy and reduced greenhouse gas <br />Minnesota bank performance: 4th quarter 2012 <br />emissions. <br />St. Anthony: $2.2 billion project will overhaul <br />Minnesota's electrical grid <br />"The amazing thing is the impact you can have on <br />decreasing greenhouse gases and increasing <br />Alexander. Using e- mail to send iPad text <br />messages <br />renewable energy," said Heather Bailey, a former <br />utility executive whom the city hired last year as <br />Delta Air Lines adding new Flights to Dickinson, <br />ND., to meet oil boom demand <br />executive director of energy strategy and electric <br />utility development. She headed a team of city <br />officials and outside experts that prepared the <br />report. <br />In November 2011, Boulder voters narrowly <br />passed a measure to replace Xcel when the <br />utility's franchise agreement expires. The <br />measure authorized a switch only if a city power <br />. <br />company could offer rates and service as good as <br />Xcel's. <br />http: / /www.startribune.com /business /I 92624391.html 2/27/2013 <br />