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Walmart’s Latest Colorado Solar Installation Marks Milestone

The nation’s largest retailer has announced the installation of six more solar projects in Denver, built in partnership with SolarCity. It brings the total number of PV installations to 100 for Walmart, which says its long term goal is to use clean energy at all of its American stores and distribution centers.

13Apr2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Healthcare Provider Kaiser Permanente Commits to Solar

While the majority of announced solar installations at this point will be in California, Kaiser is doing this throughout its territories, which include COLORADO, Washington, D.C., Maryland, and more. It’s goal is to reduce GHG emissions
by 30% within eight years.

13Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Tri-State to Purchase Power From New Wind Farm

The 67-Megawatt Colorado Highlands Wind project will be built on a 5,200-acre site in Logan County, within the service territory of Highline Electric Association, one of Tri-State’s members. Alliance Power Inc. of Littleton and GE Energy Financial Services of Stamford, Conn., jointly own the LLC doing the development.

5Mar2012 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Juwi Solar Completes PV Plant in Nevada

Although Boulder-based juwi Solar has developed and built large-scale PV projects in several states around the country, the Cactus Garden solar facility is the first one the company will own in the United States on a long-term basis.

5Mar2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Abound Solar Cuts 280 Jobs at Longmont Facility

The manufacturer said the cuts were made because it is abandoning work on its first-generation module and switching to a next-generation module that will be much more efficient. Yet Abound also acknowledged in a press release that the “current market conditions are challenging for all U.S. solar manufacturers.”

29Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Vestas To Lay Off More Than 2,300 Worldwide; U.S. Layoffs Could Follow

While the announced layoffs are primarily taking place in Europe and specifically Denmark, the firm said it is preparing for a potential slowdown in the United States in case the Production Tax Credit is not extended before it expires at the end of this year. That would directly impact Colorado workers.

12Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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TFG Radiant Increases Ownership in Ascent Solar

The latest buy will increase TFG Radiant’s ownership in the Thornton-based thin film solar module manufacturer to more than 41 percent. The transaction is expected to close within the next 90 days.

4Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Real Goods Solar Completes Merger With Alteris

Real Goods recently offered net-revenue guidance for 2011 of $110 million, and said it expects $180 million of net revenue for 2012, excluding acquisitions. The company said it plans to centralize operations in Louisville.

20Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Boulder’s juwi Solar Inks 20-Year Power
Purchase Agreement

The deal is with the Salt River Project in Arizona for 19 megawatts of photovoltaic energy from a facility to be built in a Phoenix suburb. The plant will utilize approximately 90,000 photovoltaic modules mounted on a single-axis tracking system that follows the sun.

12Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Curtain Closing on Range Fuels? Feds Want Its Ethanol Plant in Georgia Liquidated

Bloomberg reports the Soperton, Ga., factory is to be liquidated after the Broomfield-based company defaulted on a federal loan and failed to produce cellulosic ethanol, a fuel made from wood chips that the plant was intended to produce.

5Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Community Solar Garden Developer Lands
Two New Projects

Clean Energy Collective was hired this fall to install a 500-kilowatt solar garden as part of an alternative-energy pilot project in Colorado Springs. It was also selected by the San Miguel Power Association to build a 1-megawatt solar farm near Telluride.

29Nov2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Key Appointments in Aurora

Merrick & Company has selected David G. Huelskamp to be the firm’s new president, effective in January. At Ecotech Institute, Kolby Chase has been hired as the school’s Director of Admissions. The career college will host its first graduation class in June of next year.

17Nov2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Vestas’ Brighton Blade Plant Gets First Order

The order is for 55-meter blades that are part of the V112-3.0 MW turbines — destined for a Vermont wind farm. The Denmark-based company operates three other Colorado factories — a blade facility in Windsor, a tower plant in Pueblo and a nacelle assembly factory in Brighton.

6Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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