Xcel says it will deliver 100% clean electricity by 2050, not Boulder's 2030 goal, and has presented no concrete plan under the 2020 franchise agreement. What remedies would you propose for Xcel's failures to deliver, at the city level, at the PUC, or at the state level? And would you be open to inviting cities that have gone to market for their electricity to come to Boulder to educate us about life after Xcel?

As far as finding out from other communities about switching to market things, I think that's a very good idea.

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Excel would own the power lines and the wires, but we would be free to to buy energy on the market

Transcript note: Describing community choice energy, which he says the state legislature would need to allow.

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the most important thing we should be talking about is creating a council level committee or task force

Speaker identified from speaking order; the moderator did not name them.

Transcript note: The moderator's cue is 'Ryan is next.' Ryan Jamieson had already answered this question, and the speaker describes council's own meetings, so this is Ryan Schuchard.

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If they want us to remain their customer, then they should work harder to do that.

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So yes, I think we should go shopping. I think having communities like Fountain down here would be a great idea.

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I think that we need to be moving beyond trusting Excel's projections,

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I think that the CCE is really our best route forward if we can work with with our colleagues at the state level and get that passed

Speaker identified from speaking order; the moderator did not name them.

Transcript note: The moderator skipped him in the order; he answered after Jamillah Richmond, and the moderator then thanked 'David' for catching it. 'CCE' is community choice energy.

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we should be looking at the 10 year opt out as to whether there is an option that makes Excel energy recommit to its carbon reduction goals.

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So we do have off-ramps in our franchise agreement with Excel. And that's really our point of leverage.

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I think that creating some level of local resilience within our community is really the only path forward.

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We need to exit Excel yesterday.

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where we are today and reliability is unacceptable and it's time to look for other solutions.

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