All Posts Tagged With: "Boulder"

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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 | admin | 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 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Analyzing Issues 2B and 2C –
Which Way will Boulder Vote?

Untold gallons of ink-both physical and digital-have been spilled in recent months about Boulder’s Nov 1 vote to authorize municipalization of Xcel Energy’s electric system within the city. Contributing expert John Egan weighs in on the measures, providing supporters with a host of reasons to be optomistic — OR NOT.

24Oct2011 | admin | 1 comment | 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 | admin | 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 | admin | 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 | admin | 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 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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SOLAR Install Tracks –

Snapshots of current projects … R&D news and installations … from Pueblo to Fort Collins, Grand Junction to DIA. Despite a sluggish economy, Colorado continues to embrace the power of the sun in the public and private sectors.

9Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Simple Solar Files for Bankruptcy

The Boulder-based PV installer attributes its financial troubles to straying from its core of residential and small commercial jobs to chase utility-scale projects. The move signals a big fall considering the #4 ranking Simple Solar enjoyed in a local 2009 list of fastest growing companies.

23May2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Funding Recap –
Eight Colorado Startups Get Energy Grants

In case you missed the announcement over the Thanksgiving Holiday, eight nascent Colorado companies working on clean technology applications have won a total of $1.5 million in U.S. Department of Energy grants. Here are the winners –

2Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Boulder - Excel Franchise Negotiations
Hit Sticking Points

According to a city memo, the private negotiations that have been ongoing for more than a year won’t be finished in time for a new agreement to appear on the November ballot this year.

4Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued


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