UTILITIES
State Task Force to Target Carbon Capture
and Sequestration
The move is intended to help address the cmplex legal, regulatory and policy issues surrounding CO2 capture and sequestration if Colorado’s coal industry is going to succeed in a carbon-constrained economy, said a state official.
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State PUC Approves Xcel’s Two-Tier
Rate Structure
The plan essentially means the more electricity consumers use, the more they would pay. From June through September, Xcel’s 1.1 million residential customers will be charged a lower rate for the first 500 kilowatt-hours per month and a higher rate for all electricity above that amount.
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Arch Coal’s Colorado Mine Garners Awards
The company announced that Mountain Coal Company’s West Elk mine employees were honored with a Colorado state safety award and two state environmental awards at the National Western Mining Conference in Denver.
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PUC Orders More Transparency for Boulder Smart Grid
The smart grid already allows Xcel to read meters in Boulder remotely, route power around bottle-necked lines and detect power outages without relying on people calling in. But the utility now says it believes the total bill will reach $42.1 million, not including O&M costs.
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Evergreen Energy in Tentative Deal to Sell K-Fuel Unit
Denver-based Evergreen Energy’s(EEE) stock rose Thursday on news that the company would spin off its K-Fuel unit. The company signed a tentative agreement to sell its proprietary “clean coal” technology to a newly formed subsidiary called Clean Coal China.
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Regional Report –
DOE Passes on Utah Clean Coal Project
The U.S. Department of Energy has determined that the project proposed by Deseret Power will not be selected to receive any funding under the latest clean energy initiative program. Moon Lake Electric Association in Rangely on the West Slope of Colorado is a member of the power cooperative.
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IGCC Technology in a Reduced Carbon World — GE Energy Makes Its Case
This plant could become a model for new power generating facilities worldwide and help position the United States as a leader in low carbon power generation,” said Jonathan Briggs, regional director of the Americas for Hydrogen Energy.
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Chu Aims to Double U.S. Hydropower Capacity —
Without Building New Dams
The Secretary said improvements to the existing infrastructure could add 70,000 MW of capacity. “We will be pushing this,” Chu said at a White House forum. “We’re not talking about a lot of large, new reservoirs. Just work with what we have and it’s a massive amount of power.”
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Tri-State, Xcel Defend San Luis Valley Transmission Proposal
The utilities were responding to a report from the Trinchera Ranch filed late last month with the Colorado PUC. It offered a series of alternatives that would cost millions of dollars less, while sparing scenic La Veta Pass, according to the consultant involved.
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Westmoreland Coal’s Losses Grow
The Colorado Springs-based energy company reported its losses for the quarter jumped to $12.4 million from $3.49 million in the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue fell 20.5 percent to $112.4 million during the same period.
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Regulators Hold Hearing on Proposed Southern
Colorado Transmission Line
Xcel Energy and Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association are partnering on the building of a new substation and 150-mile transmission line, which would run from the San Luis Valley to Pueblo.
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Power Lines– Smart Grid Funding, Program and Tech Updates
>> Fed Funding for Smart Grid Goes to CO Companies
>> Tendril Networks Announces Tech Partnership
>> SmartGridCity™ Gets Toyota Plug-In Vehicles
>> Smart Meters Could Bring Big Savings
Solar Boosts Xcel’s Renewables Portfolio
The utility has added more than 257 megawatts of solar power to its plan for meeting Colorado’s renewable energy standard by 2020. The additional energy will be generated by a program in which Xcel purchases renewable energy credits from customers who isntall solar power systems.
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Regional Update — Sithe Applies for $450M DOE Grant for Carbon Capture at Desert Rock Enegy Project
The coal-fired facility was designed to incorporate environmental technology to remove 98 per cent of sulphur dioxide, 95 per cent of nitrous oxide and more than 90 per cent of mercury. Desert Rock is located near an existing pipeline used to transport CO2 from Colorado to West Texas.
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Colorado is NOT Arizona
His critics will never acknowledge it, but executive leadership like the kind provided by Colorado’s governor can make a critical difference in a state’s economic well-being, even in the depths of a severe recession. Think we’re overstating the case? Take a look at what recently took place in Arizona, a state never known for consistent legislative policy-making.
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