Platte River Power Authority is a not-for-profit, community-owned public power utility that generates and delivers safe, reliable, environmentally responsible and financially sustainable energy and services to Estes Park, Fort Collins, Longmont and Loveland, Colorado, for delivery to their utility customers. Platte River's generation portfolio includes coal, wind, hydro, solar and gas resources.
Platte River is governed by an eight-person board of directors designed to bring relevant expertise to the decision making process. The board includes two members from each owner community. The mayor may serve or designate some other member of the governing board of their owner community to serve in their place on Platte River’s Board of Directors.
Board orientation presentationPlatte River overview and general information
Platte River's core operations documents
- Annual report
- Board meeting governance document
- Fiscal resolution
- Organic contract
- Organization and governance of Platte River Power Authority
- Power supply agreements
- Rate tariff schedules
- Resource Diversification Policy
- Strategic budget
- Strategic financial plan
- Strategic plan
- Water resources policy
- Water resources reference document
Other key board-approved policies
- Additional pension funding expense recognition policy
- Change in depreciation method accounting policy
- Community support and involvement policy
- Conference attendance policy
- Corporate governance policy
- Craig units 1 and 2 decommissioning accrual policy
- Debt issuance expense recognition policy
- Deferred revenue and expense accounting policy
- Distributed energy resources - energy efficiency funding policy
- Economic development payments policy
- Employee total compensation policy
- Fiber optic network accounting policy
- General manager annual performance review process policy
- General manager authorization related to real estate transactions for resource development
- Legislative policy
- Maintenance outage expense accrual policy
- Market manipulation prohibition policy
- Pension contribution expense recognition policy
- Rate setting policy
- Windy Gap Firming Project accounting policy