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Coal Gunk (Ash) Gets its Day

August 31, 2010

Coal ash: why should we care? Denver Post columnist Susan Greene explains why.


"What's coal ash?" I asked the tree-hugger who called to suggest I alert Coloradans.

The sky isn't falling.

Xcel's smart grid a "learning lab" for dos and don'ts

August 29, 2010

In 2008, Xcel Energy planned to turn Boulder into an "international showcase" for reliable, renewable energy by rewiring the area with a state-of-the-art distribution grid. But delays and cost overruns have plagued the project.

Xcel's SmartGridCity project has since indeed set an example in the electricity industry after missing its 2009 target for completion and running three times over the utility's original $15.3 milli

Natural Gas Bill (Re: “Why rush natural gas bill?” Vincent Carroll column)

March 30, 2010
Why is Big Coal trying so hard to convince us that coal is cheapest and the cleanest? Why are they fighting against using natural gas as an alternative?
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Colorado Senate passes clean-air bill favoring natural gas

March 31, 2010

Xcel Energy got a green light from the state legislature Tuesday to start a comprehensive plan to cut air pollution at aging coal-fired power plants — with "primary consideration" to switching to natural gas.

On a voice vote, the state Senate approved a bill that requires Xcel Energy to cut emissions of nitrogen oxides by 70 to 80 percent by 2017 at aging Front Range c

Nation Should Follow Colorado's Lead

March 25, 2010

Colorado is now claiming national leadership in American's transition to a new energy economy. Gov.

Clean air and clean jobs

March 26, 2010

Earlier this week [March 22, 2010] at a local solar energy company, a large crowd cheered as Governor Ritter signed a bill that continues Colorado's role as a nat

Ritter signs bill requiring greater use of renewable energy by 2020

March 23, 2010

Colorado, already viewed as a renewable energy leader, took another step Monday when Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law a bill that will give the state the highest renewable energy standard in the Rocky Mountain West.

The measure requires that 30 percent of electricity be generated from renewable sources by 2020.

Xcel says $1.5 million system will ease power-plant noise

March 12, 2010

Xcel Energy said Thursday that it will install a noise-canceling system by the end of April that should eliminate the high-pitched sound emanating from its new Comanche 3 power plant in Pueblo.

Steel baffles will be inserted into the bottom half of the unit's smokestack, absorbing and altering the frequencies of a sound that Xcel believes is coming from a pair of fans that generate boiler

Renewable energy bill headed toward passage

March 5, 2010

The Colorado House of Representives has passed a bill requiring Colorado utilities to use more renewable energy, sending the legislation to the governor Ritter's desk. The new law would increase the state renewable portfolio standard to 30%. That would make Colorado's Renewable Energy Standard one of the most aggressive in the nation.

A proposal requiring Colorado utilities to use more renewable energy, including smaller-scale solar projects, is headed toward passage at the Capitol.

The Senate pas

Xcel plans tiered electricity rates this summer

March 4, 2010

The Public Utilities Commission Wednesday approved the two-tiered rate as part of Xcel's $128.3 million rate increase. The rate increase is mostly designed to pay for the new Unit III coal-fired power plant in Pueblo, CO.

Running central air conditioning or pool pumps could lead to a bigger Xcel Energy bills under new tiered rates that will charge big residential electricity consumer

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