All Posts Tagged With: "coal-fired plants"
Coal To Natural Gas - It’s Happening Now
in the Power Industry
The most optimistic projections describe an abundant domestic energy source that will create enormous numbers of jobs and lead to cleaner skies. Nationwide, the electricity generated by gas-fired plants has risen by more than 50 percent over the last decade, while coal-fired generation has declined slightly.
16Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
EPA Continues to Push for Coal Plant Clean-Up in Southwestern Colorado
Many coal plants in the region did not invest in new pollution control technology in good economic times and now they cannot afford it. During her visit, EPA administrator Jackson praised Colorado’s plan to retire coal plants and replace them with natural gas-powered generators.
25Oct2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Retiring Xcel CEO: ‘OK if no more coal’
Kelly, who’s apparently moving from Minnesota (where Xcel is based) to Colorado, went on to question those in Congress denying the science behind global climate change and the need to move away from fossil fuels. “I think the science is pretty solid. Maybe we haven’t communicated it well enough.”
22Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Renewables Share of Domestic Energy Production Passes Nuclear
“Congressional Republicans continue to press for more nuclear energy funding while seeking deep cuts in renewable energy investments,” said Ken Bossong, Executive Director of the SUN DAY Campaign. “One has to wonder ‘what are these people thinking?’”
6Jul2011 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
House Panel Kills Attempt to Change Utilities’
Cost Estimates
House Bill 1240, sponsored by Rep. Spencer Swalm, R-Centennial, would have ended the three-year old practice of allowing utilities to plan out their power plant and power-purchasing decisions as if the passage of some type of cap-and-trade carbon tax were imminent.
22Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Report Ranks Colorado 21st for Power Plant
CO2 Emissions
The bigger news is that CO2 emissions in the state decreased 47 percent between 2000 and 2010, according to the report issued Friday by the Environmental Integrity Project. Nationwide, emissions rose more than 5.56 percent in 2010 from the previous year.
19Feb2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Political Pressure to Fix Future Energy Problems
The coldest temperatures in the contiguous states created a “state of emergency” due to a disruption of natural gas delivery. Power plants were shut down, workers sent home, schools closed, and shelters set up for those without heat. This was Thursday, February 3. Many people remained without heat a week later while temperatures reached as low as thirty-degrees-below zero. How could America, the wealthiest and most technologically advanced nation in the world, be faced with life-threatening energy shortages? Bottom line: our policy toward power generation is a policy that must be changed.
10Feb2011 | admin | 12 comments | Continued
Canadian Catch-Up: Can Ontario’s Formula Work Here? A Special Report from Colorado Energy News
Feed In Tariff programs have been introduced around the world, but Ontario’s project is the largest and most comprehensive in North America and is putting money into energy generation, storage and transmission. But it comes at too steep a price, says Xcel Energy.
13Jan2011 | admin | 5 comments | Continued
Colorado’s Coal Conundrum
While many Colorado citizens are rightly proud of their legislature’s bold leadership on coal, recent developments elsewhere in the country highlight the problems with energy policies that end at a state’s front door. Unfortunately, just as Colorado’s utility regulators are forging ahead towards a cleaner energy future, the state is poised to export record amounts of dirty coal, while simultaneously importing dirty electricity generated by a huge new coal-fired power plant to be built in southwest Kansas.
28Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
In-Depth — Supreme Court Hearing of GHG Case Could Have Far-Reaching Consequences
If the Court permits this kind of lawsuit, utilities could face significant future liability for climate change-related damages and a proliferation of similar nuisance suits across the country.
24Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Regulators Add Cherokee Plant to the
‘No Coal’ Xcel List
Cherokee’s three units would be replaced by a natural gas unit, and the Arapahoe power plant would be switched to gas. As we reported earlier this week, the PUC also supported adding new emissions control equipment to Xcel’s Hayden power plant in northwest Colorado and the Pawnee power plant out east.
18Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado Coal Counties Struggle to Deal With Xcel Plan
In places like Moffat County, which is home to four mines, the concern is everywhere. “Those are significant dollars to our economy,” Moffat County Commissioner Audrey Danner told KUNC reporter, Kirk Siegler.
8Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Xcel Energy’s Plan to Stop Burning Coal on the Table at the State PUC
Regulators this week will consider approving Xcel Energy’s $1.3 billion plan to stop burning coal at its electric power plants in Denver and Boulder. The utility also wants to shutdown a coal-fired generator and convert another to natural gas at its Arapahoe plant in Denver and install emission controls at plants in Brush and Hayden.
6Dec2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Crackdown on Coal: Implications of the MACT Rule for the Coal Industry
The MACT rule — which stands for Maximum Achievable Control Technology — will establish hazardous air pollutant emission standards for industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers that burn fuels such as natural gas, coal, and oil to produce heat or electricity.
23Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Poll: Coloradoans Prefer Natural Gas, Renewables Over Coal
And by a wide margin: 79 percent of those surveyed prefer renewable energy and natural gas over coal, with 76 percent supporting Xcel’s plan, mandated by last session’s House Bill 1365. The poll results were unveiled yesterday ahead of the COPUC’s deliberations over a controversial energy bill passed last legislative session.
22Sep2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
West Slope Miners Protest Coal Bill
“You might wonder why I got all the applause,” he said speaking to a crowd of hundreds. “It’s (because) I’m just one of the coal miners here. I’m one of the ones … afraid this bill is going to do away with my job.” Winey was one of several coal miners who spoke to members of the Colorado PUC yesterday in Grand Junction during a public input session on the fallout of the Clean Air, Clean Jobs Act.
1Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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