All Posts Tagged With: "electrical transmission"
Task Force on Transmission Siting and Permitting Issues Report to Governor, Legislature
While the report does not recommend establishment of a statewide transmission siting authority in Colorado at this time, it does offers three recommendations for improving existing siting and permitting processes.
1Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedObama Pledges Rapid Permits for Seven Major Transmission Projects
The White House said the move will create “thousands” of construction and operations jobs, while transforming the nation’s electric system into a “modern, 21st century grid” that is safer and more secure, giving consumers more energy choices.
6Oct2011 | admin | 1 comment | ContinuedWho Will Have the ‘Power’ Over Colorado’s
Power Transmission?
The proposal was approved by a 7 to 1 vote in the Senate Agricultural Committee last week, including a thumbs up from Committee Chair, Gail Schwartz who represents the San Luis Valley — the epicenter of Xcel and TriState’s hotly contested SoCo transmission line, recently approved by the PUC.
12Mar2011 | admin | 5 comments | ContinuedGEO Releases Strategic Transmission and Renewables Report
It couldn’t come at a better time, as electrical grid build-out issues are looming large in Colorado and throughout the west. Earlier this week the last round of arguments for and against a proposed power line betweeen Pueblo and Walsenburg and on to the San Luis Valley were heard before the COPUC.
11Jan2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Tri-State, Xcel Defend San Luis Valley Transmission Proposal
The utilities were responding to a report from the Trinchera Ranch filed late last month with the Colorado PUC. It offered a series of alternatives that would cost millions of dollars less, while sparing scenic La Veta Pass, according to the consultant involved.
16Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedJackson Hole Revisited: Notes and Reflections on the Western States Energy Symposium
We headed south out of Jackson Hole last week, skirting the mountain ranges of Western Wyoming and across the ribbon of highway that intersects impossibly vast reaches of the open range. With my wife behind the wheel from Jackson to Rock Springs, I had ample time to reflect on the unique gathering we had just attended.
3Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedStaying Ahead of the Smart Grid Curve with Power Monitoring
PowerView enables homeowner and business customers to see their energy profile and affect change now, regardless of where they live, what utility they are served by, or if that utility has implemented smart meters.
19Feb2009 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedSEIA Sees Promise of More Jobs in Stimulus Signing
The solar energy provisions in this bill will help create 60,000 jobs in the solar industry in 2009 alone and a total of 110,000 over the next two years, SEIA president and CEO, Rhone Resch, stated.
18Feb2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued