All Posts Tagged With: "Huerfano County"
Black Hills Energy Begins Operations at New
Wind Farm
The 29-megawatt Busch Ranch Wind development is sited 30 miles south of Pueblo in Huerfano County. It represents the power gen company’s first Colorado wind project, and will connect to the utility’s 94,000 electric customers with 36 miles of new transmission lines.
17Oct2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Grand Valley Citizens Group Challenges COGCC
Grand Valley Citizens Alliance vs Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC) was argued in front of the Colorado Supreme Court on Wednesday. At stake is whether landowners, citizens and community groups in Colorado can directly request a public hearing with the
COGCC on matters of oil and gas development.
September Perspective –
Monopoly Energy or Energy Democracy?
Its been a discouraging year. I found myself confronted with the hard truth that we local, distributed clean energy advocates, climate and anti-frack/fossil fuel activists, and regular folks who just want affordable energy that doesn’t wreck the environment, are losing. No, it’s worse than that.
6Sep2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
State PUC Approves Black Hills’ 29 Megawatt
Wind Project
The approval of the settlement enables Black Hills Energy to construct and own 50 percent of the wind project and authorized the company to conduct a competitive solicitation for ownership of the other half. The development south of Pueblo will feature Vestas wind turbines built in-state.
10Aug2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Black Hills, Vestas Await PUC Approval for Huerfano County Wind Farm
The utility is proposing the 29-megawatt project as one piece of its plan to meet the state’s 30% renewable energy standard enacted last year. The turbine assemblies would be produced at Vestas plants here in Colorado.
12Jun2011 | 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 ...