When Administrative Law Judge Paul Gomez denied "with prejudice" Public Service Co. of Colorado's (PSCo) petition to recover $16.6 million in cost overruns for its Boulder SmartGridCity pilot, the ruling marked the latest in a series of black eyes the utility has suffered over the project. In a scathing mid-January decision,1 Judge Gomez said the company had failed to prove the project's extra costs were prudently incurred. He termed PSCo's purported consumer benefits "meager," and said its petition lacked "any showing of cost-effectiveness."
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