All Posts Tagged With: "Maxwell Ranch"
CSU Struggles With Green Goals
The collapse last week of a deal to build a massive electricity-generating wind farm on CSU’s Maxwell Ranch highlights the university’s struggles to significantly cut its consumption of fossil fuels and reduce carbon dioxide emissions. While Colorado State University has made a series of small- and medium-sized steps, administrators say transforming the university’s operations will take far longer than initially expected.
20Dec2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
New Chapter Unfolds for CSU’s Troubled Maxwell Ranch Wind Project
The University recently inked an agreement with San Diego-based Cannon Power Group to design and develop a wind farm on CSU’s Maxwell Ranch property near the Colorado-Wyoming border. This, after the initial developer, Wind Holding LLC, bowed out because of financial problems.
23Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Delays May Doom Wind Farm Project
Debtors are knocking at their door and time is running short for promoters of the $500 million Maxwell Ranch project to deliver or lose their lease. Wind Holding must begin construction and secure an agreement with a transmission provider by September 25th.
2Sep2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Wind Industry Waits For Better Times
Having built multiple projects around the country, Wind Holding – a consortium of developers and financiers – has apparently run into two problems that are plaguing the broader wind industry: a cash crunch and a lack of transmission lines to get the electricity it produces to market. Others are facing similar headwinds.
18Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
CSU’s Wind Farm on the Rocks?
The developer of the $500 million Maxwell Ranch wind farm is financially “overextended,” facing construction liens from its vendors and in danger of seeing its deal with the university cancelled. Wind Holding has 60 days to remedy the situation by paying off its bills and finding a new partner, university officials say.
11Aug2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Updates
>> Xcel Wants Nuclear Option
>> CSU Pushes Wind Project Despite Opposition
>> Colorado Building Thousands of Net-Zero Homes
>> Green Groups Change Strategies at Capitol
>> U.S. Drilling Count Down Again
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