All Posts Tagged With: "Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association"
Tri-State to Purchase Power From New Wind Farm
The 67-Megawatt Colorado Highlands Wind project will be built on a 5,200-acre site in Logan County, within the service territory of Highline Electric Association, one of Tri-State’s members. Alliance Power Inc. of Littleton and GE Energy Financial Services of Stamford, Conn., jointly own the LLC doing the development.
5Mar2012 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
State PUC Approves Controversial Power Line in Southern Colorado
The nearly 150-mile, $180 million transmission project is designed to carry solar and wind energy from the San Luis Valley over La Veta Pass to the Front Range. The line would cross the sprawling Trinchera Ranch property owned by investor Louis Bacon, who has been strongly opposing it.
12Feb2011 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Regional Perspective —
A Tale of Two Coal-Fired Plants
The close links between mining and energy production are hardly limited to Illinois. Big coal has a big interest in seeing a new Sunflower plant built in Kansas. Colorado’s Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association has promised to purchase electricity from Kansas and numbers Sunflower among its members.
14Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Large Scale Solar vs. Point-of-Use DG –
The Debate Heats Up in the San Luis Valley
Residents support solar, but are wary of centralized, large-scale photovoltaic arrays in the rural valley. Small-scale solar projects near existing sub-stations make more sense, say supporters.They advocate phased-in local, point-of-use renewable energy generation.
25May2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Transmission Talks Heat Up in Southern Colorado
The arguments between the utility companies proposing the line and their opponents have mushroomed as the state and federal government carry out separate reviews. Xcel Energy and Tri-State say the line is necessary to export wind and solar power to the Front Range.
17Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Tri-State, Western Resource Advocates Reach Accord on Electric Resource Planning
WRA energy program director John Nielsen said the new approach is a big step forward “because it provides an opportunity for members of the public to work with Tri-State to consider the role that clean-energy resources might play in its resource plan.”
10Dec2009 | 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 | Continued
Regulators Hold Hearing on Proposed Southern
Colorado Transmission Line
Xcel Energy and Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association are partnering on the building of a new substation and 150-mile transmission line, which would run from the San Luis Valley to Pueblo.
9Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
State PUC Begins Debate on More
Oversight of Tri-State
A packed Public Utility hearing room in Denver was the scene on Thursday as officials from Tri-State Generation & Transmission and environmentalists squared off over whether the COPUC should oversee the state’s second largest utility as it does Xcel Energy.
17Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
POWER PLAYS –
- Excel Energy Expanding NextEra Wind Agreement
-Tri-State Submits Greenhouse Gas Plan to GEO
If the Xcel deal is approved by the Colorado PUC, 15 new 1.5-megawatt wind turbines would be installed by the end of the year. Tri-State hopes the roadmap shows it is engaged in a number of specific activities that can address potential greenhouse gas emission constraints.
9Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado Considers More Oversight of Tri-State
Driving the PUC’s look at the wholesale power supplier are concerns about climate change, uncertainty about future development costs and state mandates for more renewable energy. All that warrants a comprehensive look at statewide energy use, the commission says. Tri-State, however, questions the commission’s legal authority to oversee its plans.
21May2009 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Monday Read
News and Views From Around the State
>> Greeley, Weld Struggle with $1.5 Million Federal Surprise
>> Ritter in Aspen: Nation, State Seeing the Green light
>> Tri-State’s Solar Plant Deal
>> ‘Smart-Grid’ Vulnerable to Hackers Say Experts
>> Carroll: Energy Pipe Dream
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