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Part owner of troubled Comanche 3 power plant wants money back from Colorado’s Xcel Energy
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A part owner of the troubled and soon-to-be decommissioned Comanche Power Station Unit 3 near Pueblo wants its money back. CORE Electrical Cooperative delivered a notice Sept. 6 to the Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo), Xcel Energy’s Colorado branch, saying it is withdrawing from its partial ownership of the facility and demanding a refund…
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Q&A with Heidi Ganahl | Colorado’s energy transition is ‘too far, too fast’
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The Denver Gazette invited gubernatorial candidates to talk about energy and transportation. Republican candidate Greg Lopez declined the Q&A. In this interview, Republican candidate Heidi Ganahl argues that Colorado’s transition to renewable energy sources is going “too far, too fast,” hammering the poorest Coloradans. The Denver Gazette: What’s the elevator pitch on your energy intentions? Heidi Ganahl: I…
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Natural gas units going up at Drake Power Plant, deconstruction of building likely years out
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Six new natural gas units are going up where a colossal coal pile once stood at the Martin Drake Power Plant, a major step toward dismantling the aging blue building in downtown. Colorado Springs Utilities started work preparing for the new $120 million units shortly after the power plant burned coal for the last time…
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Bennet’s bill seeks to help communities devastated by job losses in coal mining industry
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U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, introduced a bill on Wednesday that would augment at the federal level Colorado’s Just Transition Plan, which tries to lessen the economic and social effects of the closure of coal power plants and mines across the state. “This bill was carefully written to reflect the needs of Colorado’s rural…
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Major cooperative agrees to aggressive clean power goals, consider retiring Craig coal unit 4 years early
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Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, which supplies power to 43 power distribution cooperatives in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Nebraska, agreed Wednesday to accelerate its transition to renewable energy and consider potentially shutting down a coal plant unit in the city of Craig four years earlier than originally planned. The proposed settlement before the Colorado…
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Coloradans face sharp spike in energy bills this winter
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Millions of Coloradans face steep increases in energy bills this winter, with some having to pay as much as 50% more compared to last winter. The rate increases occur at a time when residents struggle to keep up with inflation and the COVID-19 pandemic continues to hammer the state and the rest of the country.…
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Wyoming funds carbon capture research in hopes of preserving its coal industry
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“>U.S. EIA spot prices for natural gas As Colorado transitions away from coal to renewable energy, neighboring Wyoming is investing in research and technology that officials hope will preserve its coal industry while also meeting carbon emission reduction goals. Colorado is open to deploying such a technology, but not to extend the life of existing coal plants,…
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Polis to congressional panel: Climate change is ‘an existential threat’
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BOULDER ? Colorado Gov. Jared Polis told a congressional climate-change committee’s field hearing Thursday that he considers global warming to be “existential threat to our security, our health, our economy, our public lands and eco-systems and our very way of life.” Polis was the lead speaker in a morning of testimony taken at the University…
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Utilities in Colorado, elsewhere speed up closure of coal-fired power plants despite Trump’s coal push
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Just last summer, Northern Indiana Public Service Co. planned to retire two of its five remaining coal-fired power plants by 2023. Now, it plans to do away with all of them over the next decade, and buy more solar and wind power instead. The Midwestern utility’s decision is part of a broader shift among American…
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$5M in claims filed against Colorado coal company in Montana
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BILLINGS, Mont. – County governments, the family of a fallen miner and dentists are among those in Montana trying to collect more than $5 million from a Colorado coal company that’s working through bankruptcy proceedings. The Billings Gazette reports that Douglas County-based Westmoreland Coal Co., which owns three mines in the state, declared bankruptcy in…
