Electric Cooperatives Join in Solar-Hydropower Study
Updated by Staff
Holy Cross Energy is one of three electric cooperatives that will be part of a study to quantify the economic effects on power providers from linking rooftop solar energy and small hydropower plants into the grid.
The Glenwood Springs-based utility is joining Fort Collins Light and Power and the San Luis Valley Rural Electric Cooperative in what is the first such study of its kind in Colorado, according to the Governor’s Energy Office, also a partner in the study.
As has been well-reported, this year the Colorado legislature approved a mandate that requires Colorado’s investor-owned utilities to generate 30 percent of their electricity from renewable power by 2015. This new study aligns with the requirement because three percent must come from distributed systems such as rooftop solar and small hydropower.
“Typically, adding distributed generation using the sun, water or wind can benefit utilities by reducing or delaying the need to build additional, and costly, utility-scale power plants and transmission,” a news release from the Governor’s Energy Office noted.
It also can reduce the need to purchase more costly electricity from other sources during times of peak use, the GEO said.
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