Conservatives pro-solar claims Xcel wants to kill solar in Colorado

A new conservative pro-solar organization has raised in Colorado, US, with a very particular name "Tell Utilities Solar Won't be Killed", or simply TUSK. The promoters say this organization "has launched organizing, fundraising, and education campaigns in Colorado in response to government-regulated monopoly utility Xcel's attacks on rooftop solar. Xcel wants to damage the state's rooftop solar industry and deny Coloradans the right to generate their own electricity", Former US Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. TUSK's Chairman, has said "this war on energy choice has been moving state to state as utilities try – and fail – to drive solar competitors out of business (...). Utilities like Xcel are launching these attacks in red and purple states because they think Republicans are so backwards they can't see the benefits of solar. They are wrong. Conservatives stand for competition, and it is high time these utility companies understand that." Contrary to what Gordon Gekko from the movie 'Wall Street' once said, greed is not good, and it's certainly not good for Xcel Energy's Colorado customers. Click here to watch our video. TUSK claims Colorado has become a heated battleground where monopolist utility Xcel is trying to end energy choice and competition by attacking rooftop solar. The organization argues utilities like Xcel have failed to stifle rooftop solar in Arizona, Oklahoma, Idaho, Utah and countless other states. The lobby group is currently active in states across the country and is now working to ensure utilities won't kill competition in Colorado. The organization believes Xcel wants to gut a policy called net metering. Net metering gives solar customers fair credit for the valuable surplus energy they provide to the grid. That surplus energy is send to the grid and Xcel sells it at the full retail rate. The organization claims Xcel is asking regulators to change the rules so that it can just confiscate the rooftop solar surplus and sell it for a profit. TUSK has released a short video where they say famous "Wall Street" character Gordon Gecko would applaud Xcel's scheme to rake in excess profits but people paying utility bills would feel otherwise.