All Posts Tagged With: "Boulder"

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500 Kilowatt Solar Project in Boulder Completed

The Boulder Cowdery Meadows Solar Array is the first community solar project completed under Xcel Energy’s Solar*Rewards Community program, under which any utility ratepayer can directly purchase energy from a “solar garden” and immediately save money on monthly electricity bills.

17May2013 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Solar Systems Debut in Boulder County Schools

The 14-school project may be one of the largest undertaken by a school district in the country, at least a district the size as Boulder Valley. This increases the number of buildings in the district with solar arrays to 30, half of the buildings in the system.

3Oct2012 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Support for Xcel’s Bid To Limit Boulder Programs

Economic development groups and chambers of commerce in the Denver metro area and in Grand Junction are asking the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to support Xcel Energy’s bid to restrict energy-efficiency programs and solar rebates in Boulder.

26Mar2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel Asks State PUC to Exclude Boulder
From Programs (Unless)

The utility is asking state regulators to allow it to exclude Boulder customers from certain renewable energy and demand side management programs –unless the city guarantees it will assume the their costs if the city forms a new municipal utility.

21Feb2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Proposed Wind Farm for Boulder Could Power Xcel’s Largest Customers

The two changes proposed would drop the rates for smaller purchasers, including residential customers, from $2.16 per 100 kilowatt-hours to $1, a move that would make Xcel’s prices more competitive with other green energy purchase programs available in Colorado.

30Jan2012 | | 1 comment | Continued
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2B and 2C Squeaks By in Boulder

While both measures associated with a town-owned municipal power company passed, the narrowness of the outcome has both proponents and opponents claiming victory.

2Nov2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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TECH Update — Radiometrics Expands Systems for Wind Energy and Utility Industries

Utility companies are now using the company’s MP-3000A data to improve short-term energy demand forecasts, and wind stability prediction for wind turbine power generation.

22Sep2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Learning From Portland’s Attempt
at Municipalization

For all its attitude and quirks, Portland remains a place that pursues the cutting edge of environmental, social and transportation issues — with both successes and failures — which create lessons for ongoing Boulder projects. Take, for example, Boulder’s debate over whether to leave Xcel Energy in favor of creating a municipal utility.

29Aug2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Plug Wars: When Cities Take Back the Power

The City of Boulder is weighing whether to renew its 20-year franchise agreement for electricity with Xcel, or to create its own municipal utility. The rub? The city has pegged contract renewal to reduction of carbon emissions á la Kyoto Protocol goals (greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2012). Boulder officials dismiss recent offers by Xcel (like offsetting carbon emissions with renewable energy) as window dressing to disguise the utility’s heavy carbon emissions statewide.

11Aug2011 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Xcel: Boulder Could be ‘Most Green City Worldwide’

But that could come at a cost of higher utility rates — at least until wind power becomes cheaper than coal or natural gas. “Whatever it is that they are proposing, it appears to be only a wind purchase deal with an unclear pricing structure,” said former Boulder councilman Steve Pomerance.

7Jun2011 | | 0 comments | Continued


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