Projects
GRID Alternatives Launches Low-Income Solar Program in Colorado
Solar electric systems were installed on homes built by Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver, saving an estimated $360,000 over the systems’ lifetimes. GRID’s volunteer-based model will also provide local job trainees and community and corporate volunteers with hands-on solar installation experience.
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SunShare Preparing for Second Community Solar Garden
“So what started here in Colorado Springs is starting to open up to different communities around the country and it’s really turning into a popular way for people to go solar, without the panels on their roof and without the long term maintenance of taking care of those panels.”
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NREL Partnering with HP and Intel to Create World’s Most Efficient Data Center
The $10 million HPC system will reside at the Energy Systems Integration Facility, under construction on the Golden, Colorado, campus. When completed, it will greatly expand NREL’s modeling and simulation capabilities.
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Community Solar Garden Dedicated in Fort Collins
The Poudre Valley REA Community Solar Farm is the first of its kind in Northern Colorado and encompasses 494 solar panels generating 116,090 watts of electricity. The panels were purchased and are owned by individual consumers
who receive electricity from PVREA.
Public-Private Partnership Brings Solar PV to Denver Affordable Housing
The DHA intends to add more than 2.5-MW of solar power to 387 affordable single-family residences by next April, a project that brings together local private sector businesses and public sector organizations.
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Interior’s Solar Energy Zones Initiative Targets 16,000 Plus Acres in the San Luis Valley
Colorado is one of six states that will be home to utility scale solar projects as part of the Solar Energy Zones initiative from the U.S. Department of Interior. The 285,000 acres across 17 sites include more than 16,000 acres in the San Luis Valley on the Western Slope.
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San Miguel Power Community Solar Groundbreaking July 31
The system is sited on seven acres in the northeast corner of Paradox Valley along U.S. Highway 90, approximately 15 miles west of Naturita, Colo. When completed, it will provide enough electricity to power roughly 220 homes within SMPA’s service territory.
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Summit County Readies to Compete for Solar Gardens Ahead of Xcel Offering
The interest for community solar gardens in towns like Breckenridge is very high, according to Braun. “That’s what we’re finding in these resort-driven towns. There’s plenty of audience to sell out for the second [project] as well,” he said.
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GE Puts Planned Solar Manufacturing Plant
in Aurora on 18-Month Hold
The GE Primestar plant near Interstate 70 and Tower
Road would have been the largest solar panel factory in the county and employ 335 people. Tom Clark of the
Metro Denver Economic Development Corporation said
the company’s aim is for its next iteration of their panel
to be competitive.
Regional Update: Feds Complete Environmental Review for Largest Wind Project in U.S.
The 3,000 megawatt Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Farm project in Wyoming would contain as many as 1,000 turbines on public and private land. Salazar told reporters Interior is promoting wider use of renewables on public land to reduce consumption of foreign oil and create more clean energy jobs.
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Xcel Energy in Deal for Colorado, Minnesota Wind
Turbine O&M Contract
In Colorado, Outland will provide full-time services for the 26.5 MW Ponnequin site in Weld County, which utilizes both Vestas 660 kW and NEG-Micon 750 kW wind turbines. A total of 44 units operate at the location just south of the Wyoming border and east of Interstate 25.
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DoD Energy Projects Prompt Interagency
Turf Wars
The developer stands to pull in $34 million annually in energy sales to local utilities and other customers, but for the deal to go through, the Air Force needs the approval of another federal agency: the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management. That is because BLM owns the land and has final say over its use.
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Colorado Highlands Wind Project Gets Underway
Once completed, full output will be delivered under a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, a not-for-profit wholesale power provider to 44 rural electric cooperatives in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
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Assessing Oil and Gas Influence on State Politics – Two Views
A left-leaning watchdog group released a report late last week that contends the oil and gas industry exerts an outsized influence on Colorado politics, and generous political spending might be the reason. Colorado Ethics Watch does not accuse the oil and gas industry of wrongdoing, but does suggest it benefits from spending so freely to influence politicians.
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Though a small step and almost over 16 years into the die-off of our forests, this effort should be applauded ...
The best ballot initiative is one that will ban initiatives. Otherwise what is the point of electing legislators. 
Thanks for the info Fred! 
Tri-State Board Policy 117 limits member co-op generation to 5%.
LPEA has asked them to lift that for community solar gardens.
https://www.lpea.coop/pdf/board_meeting/resolutions/2012/201213_tristate_policy_117.pdf 
To see this exciting change as "scary" seems incredibly short-sited to me. Between the increasing power demands caused by ...