All Posts Tagged With: "Boulder"
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 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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
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
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
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
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
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
Oil/Gas Industry: Trust us! We care, we really do. The rest of the us: No! 
Thanks for the info Fred! 
I think its a 10% mandate not 5%. 
To see this exciting change as "scary" seems incredibly short-sited to me. Between the increasing power demands caused by ...
Thanks for highlighting all the great work the Northern Colorado Chapter of CRES is doing. One small but important correction--the ...