All Posts Tagged With: "Xcel Energy"

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Efficiency Field Notes –
Broken Boiler Keys Energy Saving Vision

The new Energy Management System (EMS) automatically controls and increases the efficiency of all major mechanical equipment including boilers, chiller and cooling tower.

29Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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PUC Staff Presses XCEL for Wind Program Refund

The Colorado Public Utilities Commission contends that Xcel overcollected more than $1.5 million from Windsource customers who voluntarily paid about $10 extra per month for wind-generated electricity between 2005 and 2007.

29Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Digital Technology and Interoperability Key to Smarter Grid

Making the shift to modern digital technology will be a major endeavor. “Interoperability is really the big part of the focus for researchers and engineers,” says NREL’s Dick DeBlasio.

16Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel’s Fuel Mistakes: Who Should Pay?

Xcel’s biggest blunder was charging ahead with the new billion-dollar Unit 3 coal plant in Pueblo as it attempted to recover from its 2002 stock price crash. As a result, Colorado is now the unlucky owner of one of this country’s last conventional coal plants.

15Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Energy Software Key to Xcel’s Wind-to-Battery Project

Xcel Energy says incorporating GridPoint’s software in the wind-to-battery project is part of their efforts to modernize and upgrade the grid to allow easier integration of variable renewable energy sources.

4Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel Wants to Raise Customers’ Tab for Renewable Energy

The state’s largest utility said more money is needed to pay for solar and wind projects that will help it meet both state-mandated and voter-approved goals for using renewable energy resources to generate power.

3Dec2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Database of State/Local Incentives for
Energy Efficiency and Renewables

Find out what incentives for renewable energy and efficiency are available for you and your business here in Colorado and elsewhere. This handy resource details state, local, utility and federal incentives.

14Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Coloradoans Enlisting in Xcel’s Renewable
Programs in Big Numbers

Nearly 46,000 customers are currently enrolled in the program, with the average subscriber paying an additional $10-$20 per month on their electric bill. The utility has been amazed at the demand, particularly from businesses.

6Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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State’s Solar Industry Dismayed by Xcel’s
Move to Reduce Credits

Xcel Energy plans to reduce the rate it pays for renewable energy credits from $2.50 per watt to $1.50 per watt for systems with a capacity of less than 10 kilowatts. The move is raising concerns about the outlook for the state’s solar industry, according to the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association.

27Oct2008 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Colorado’s Grid May Expand With
Xcel-Tri-State Agreement

The lines could distribute power from new solar and wind-generation facilities as well as from a new unit at Xcel Energy’s coal-fired plant near Pueblo, scheduled to start operating late next year or early 2010.

23Oct2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Complaint: XCEL Is Low Balling Coal Prices

Environmentalists claim that low-balling coal prices may lead Xcel to make poorly calculated decisions in the future about when — and if — it can economically retire its remaining coal plants. This week, Glustrom filed an appeal to the Public Utilities Commission asking it to reconsider Xcel’s coal-cost projections.

13Oct2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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COMMENTARY: EXPECT COMPROMISE ON ENERGY

Only solar power has the promise to supply massive amounts of energy, assuming we can make it more efficient. Colorado can help meet the huge national energy appetite and reduce carbon dioxide emissions at the same time - but there will, of course, be trade-offs.

6Sep2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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XCEL SETTLES GREENHOUSE GAS ISSUE WITH NEW YORK

The agreement states that “Xcel Energy represents that it has voluntarily reduced its GHG greenhouse gas emissions by a cumulative total of over 18 million tons since 2003.”

29Aug2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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XCEL Gets Go Ahead to Close Plants

DENVER - The two plants slated for closure within two to four years are coal units at the Arapahoe power plant in Denver, near Santa Fe Drive and Evans Avenue, and the Cameo plant in Grand Junction. Xcel says it will use natural gas to make up for the lost power supplies.

24Aug2008 | admin | 1 comment | Continued