PUEBLO, Colo. (KOAA) — Pueblo residents will be seeing changes in the coming year regarding their utility provider.

On Tuesday, Black Hills Energy, the regional utility provider to Pueblo County residents has announced it plans to go ahead and enter into a merger with NorthWestern Energy, which currently operates in South Dakota, Montana, and Nebraska.

Black Hills Energy's footprint is currently across 8 western states: Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

The merger, which is expected to take 12 - 15 months to complete, will see the new company, which has not been named as of the time of publishing this article, have a total of 2.1 million customers across 8 states.

We are excited to bring our two highly complementary companies together to cr

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