All Posts Tagged With: "coal-fired plants"

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Luca Technologies Raises $76 Million for Coal Gasification

The Golden company has developed technology to use micro-organisms to revive old coal seams and natural gas wells. The micro-organisms are used to break down coal into methane underground.

25Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel’s Fuel Mistakes: Who Should Pay?

Xcel’s biggest blunder was charging ahead with the new billion-dollar Unit 3 coal plant in Pueblo as it attempted to recover from its 2002 stock price crash. As a result, Colorado is now the unlucky owner of one of this country’s last conventional coal plants.

15Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Proposed Tri-State Coal Plant Could
Burden Rate Payers

The Innovest report warns that Tri-State’s plans to build another 700-megawatt coal plant in either Colorado or Kansas could mean significantly higher rates for consumers served by the utility’s network of cooperatives.

25Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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XCEL Gets Go Ahead to Close Plants

DENVER - The two plants slated for closure within two to four years are coal units at the Arapahoe power plant in Denver, near Santa Fe Drive and Evans Avenue, and the Cameo plant in Grand Junction. Xcel says it will use natural gas to make up for the lost power supplies.

24Aug2008 | admin | 1 comment | Continued