All Posts Tagged With: "Clean Energy Collective"
Clean Energy Collective Awarded More Community Solar Gardens
The new arrays are 500 kilowatts each, with two of them in Boulder County and the other in Denver County. The new projects will make solar ownership affordable and accessible to several hundred more Xcel customers, according to CEC.
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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.
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Poudre Valley REA Announces Second Community Solar Farm
Clean Energy Collective will fund construction of the project in Fort Collins and Poudre Valley REA will purchase the electricity under a purchase power agreement. Once completed, PVREA consumers may purchase individual panels and their electric bills will be credited for the electricity generated each month.
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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.
Colorado, Industry Search for Value of Energy Efficiency Improvements
When Cathryn and Paul Crane went shopping for a new home in Boulder, what they kept thinking about was their log cabin in the mountains. “We spent a winter there and were impressed with how energy- efficient it was,” Cathryn Crane said. “Of course, there aren’t log cabins in Boulder.”
20Aug2012 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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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Community Solar Gardens —
Bright Spot in a Tough Year for Solar
In the latest indicator, Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association announced it is partnering with Carbondale-based Clean Energy Collective to launch a community solar program with a development at PVREA’s headquarters site near the town of Windsor.
7Mar2012 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Solar TRACKS
>> Record Number of Installations for U.S. in Third Quarter
>> Alamosa Site for January Hearing on Solar Zones
>> COSEIA Pushes for Tighter Permitting Processes
>> Solar Garden at C. Springs Landfill Moves Forward
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
In Recognition … Colorado Companies Lead the Way in Cleantech and Energy Innovation
The Clean Energy Collective was chosen Innovative Green Power Program of the Year, part of the DOE’s
Green Power Leadership Awards. The two big winners at the CCIA Awards were Englewood-based Gevo as High Impact Cleantech Company of the Year and RavenBrick for Emerging Cleantech Company of the Year.
Colorado Springs Council Paves Way for Community Solar Gardens
Colorado Springs City Council unanimously approved a new rate structure for Colorado Springs Utilities that will enable community solar gardens in which residents can purchase a share of a large PV projects rather than installing panels on their own roof.
28Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Private Solar Array in Works for Garfield County
This latest edition to the region’s renewable energy envelope is being built on a 300-acre farm, owned by Kenneth Sack, and perched on a mesa top that overlooks the Colorado River to the north. He plans to eventually have a community solar garden functioning on the site.
8Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Clean Energy Collective is now based in Boulder Colorado. 
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 ...