All Posts Tagged With: "Valmont Powerplant"

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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
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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
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Xcel Energy Files Accelerated Clean-Air Plan

The key component of the revised plan to cut air emissions from coal-fired power plants is an accelerated time-frame that, if met, would enable Colorado’s largest utility to meet the 2017 deadline set by the Clean Air-Clean Jobs Act passed earlier this year.

26Oct2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel Lays Out Plan for Natural Gas Conversion of Metro Denver Power Plants

The proposal from the state’s largest utility, which still faces months of public input at the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, would phase out coal-fired generators in Denver and Boulder — like the contentious Valmont facility pictured — and retool most units to run on cleaner natural gas.

17Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Monday Morning Read –

>> U.S. Energy Use — Traditional Sources Still Dominate
>> Despite Fed Ruling, State Wants Own Roadless Plan
>> Xcel Seeks to Clarify Position on Solar Fee Plan
>> Foes of Valmont Plant Adopt New Tactics
>> Pure Energy Selling Colorado-Based Division

10Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Public Packs Valmont Power Plant Hearing
in Boulder

Residents took their turn at the podium in the County Courthouse for nearly four hours, pleading with the state’s Air Quality Control Commission to deny the permit for a host of reasons, mostly centering on the CO2 released each year when coal is burned at the plant northeast of Boulder.

15Jul2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued


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