All Posts Tagged With: "Xcel Energy"
Xcel Wants to Add 550 Megawatts of Wind Power
in Colorado
The expansion would boost the utility’s share of wind energy by 25%. “The price for this additional wind generation is as low as any wind power currently operating on our Colorado system,” says David Eves, president and CEO of Public Service Co. of Colorado, Xcel’s local subsidiary.
3Jun2013 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Xcel Energy Wants to Turn Beetle-Killed Timber into Biomass Power
Colorado’s largest utility is proposing to harness the power from a demonstration biomass plant that would be built by someone else, and to do so for 10 years. That decade long commitment may make the demonstration project more attractive to investors.
29May2013 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Wind Power Produced 42% of All New U.S. Electric Generating Capacity in 2012
Despite nearly year-long uncertainity concerning the extension of the Production Tax Credit, 2012 was the best ever for domestic wind energy, according to the rcently released U.S. Wind Industry Annual Market Report from the American Wind Energy Association.
24Apr2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Xcel Energy Achieved Record Energy Savings
The utility exceeded energy savings goals by 22% by helping its business and residential customers save a record 401 million kWh from energy efficiency programs implemented in 2012, according to an annual DSM report recently issued by the utility.
11Apr2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Xcel to Spend $450,000 on Community Projects in Pollution Settlement
The suit was brought in 2009 by WildEarth Guardians, an environmental group, over Xcel’s alleged failure to monitor emissions from the coal-burning plant as required by law.
8Mar2013 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Judge Rejects Xcel’s Request for $16.6 Million
in SmartGridCity Costs
In a 51-page ruling, Judge Paul Gomez wrote that Xcel had “provided little in the way of a robust strategic plan” and direct benefits for customers. His recommended decision will go to the full Colorado Public Utilities Commission, which will make the final decision.
18Jan2013 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
Seventeen Percent of Xcel’s Electricity From Wind, But Future Cloudy
The future of wind power in Colorado is uncertain because although the Fiscal Cliff deal extended the Production Tax Credit for 2013 projects, Xcel Energy recently noted that it has all the renewable energy it needs to meet state requirements.
2Jan2013 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Ribbon-Cutting at Limon Wind Farms
The 400-megawatt facility 90 miles southeast of Denver was touted by U.S. Rep Cory Gardner as an example of why “we should extend the production tax credit to promote wind energy that leads to private sector investment like this one, new manufacturing jobs and a clean source of domestic energy.”
30Oct2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Black Hills Energy Files to Cut Solar Program
By Seventy-Five Percent
A spokesperson for the utility, which serves communities in southern Colorado, including Pueblo, said low natural gas prices are making renewables uneconomical to pursue.
27Aug2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Energy Efficiency Help for Business Users
Black Hills Energy, one of the seven regulated utilities in Colorado, recently filed their 2012-2015 Demand Side Management plan that includes programs and incentives for energy efficiency solutions, much of which stems from the guidance of the Energy Efficiency Business Coalition.
23Aug2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
PUC Dismisses Appeal Of Xcel’s Renewable Energy Compliance Plan
The appeal included two requested changes to Xcel’s 2012-2013 Compliance Plan that SEIA says would have improved the business climate for Colorado solar businesses, which employ more than 6,000 people in the state.
20Jul2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Xcel Energy in Deal for Colorado, Minnesota Wind
Turbine O&M Contract
In Colorado, Outland will provide full-time services for the 26.5 MW Ponnequin site in Weld County, which utilizes both Vestas 660 kW and NEG-Micon 750 kW wind turbines. A total of 44 units operate at the location just south of the Wyoming border and east of Interstate 25.
12Jun2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Report Calls for More Flexibility From EPA
The Electric Power Research Institute study says that providing electric utilities with flexibility in installing new pollution control technology to comply with current and pending EPA regulations could save approximately $100 billion in future expenditures.
4Jun2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Clean Energy Collective is now based in Boulder Colorado. 
Though a small step and almost over 16 years into the die-off of our forests, this effort should be applauded ...
The best ballot initiative is one that will ban initiatives. Otherwise what is the point of electing legislators. 
Thanks for the info Fred! 
Tri-State Board Policy 117 limits member co-op generation to 5%.
LPEA has asked them to lift that for community solar gardens.
https://www.lpea.coop/pdf/board_meeting/resolutions/2012/201213_tristate_policy_117.pdf 
To see this exciting change as "scary" seems incredibly short-sited to me. Between the increasing power demands caused by ...