Xcel’s wildfire mitigation plan is difficult to grasp [Video]

DENVER — Xcel Energy has submitted its plan to prevent its equipment from starting wildfires to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. 

The 104 documents uploaded to the PUC’s filings search last week detailed the aspects of the three-year, $1.9 billion plan.

Part of the plan includes replacing tens of thousands of power poles, putting 50 miles of distribution lines underground and adding artificial intelligence cameras to detect wildfire smoke.

Unless you know the docket number (24A-0296E) and know how to use the PUC filings search, it is difficult to get the details of the plan that could increase customer bills by $9 a month.

“These filings are complicated. I think they should be complicated, especially when we’re seeing the utility come in and ask for a lot of money, and we want to see a lot …