colorado energy plan
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HUDSON | Increasingly affordable, reliable renewable energy isn’t so scary anymore
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Technology develops in accordance with an ethos and logic impervious to ideology. Politicians on both the right and left have been badly burned in recent years by staking policy positions presuming tomorrow will look a lot like today. Whatever you may believe about evolution in the biological realm, technology changes incrementally in response to the…
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Xcel does an end run on the legislature — with an assist from Colorado’s PUC
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When the Colorado Public Utilities Commission recently approved Xcel Energy’s Colorado Energy Plan, the commissioners made a highly politicized decision that ignored economic reality, bypassed the state legislature and allowed the company to break its promise to save customers money. Coloradans should be troubled not just by the plan itself, but by how it won…
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Iceland looks to Colorado for geothermal energy projects
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WASHINGTON – Iceland, a country with abundant resources in geothermal energy, is setting its sights on Colorado as it tries to tap into the planet’s biggest market for electricity. New technologies are raising hopes that geothermal energy could produce much of the electricity used in the United States. Some of the sites ripe for geothermal…
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‘Colorado Energy Plan’ is a raw deal for the state’s low-income citizens
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Last summer, Xcel Energy introduced its “Colorado Energy Plan” (CEP) to great fanfare and hype. The Minneapolis-based public utility, which provides electricity to 1.4 million Coloradans, proposed a $2.5 billion plan to shut down affordable baseload power in favor of intermittent wind and solar, and it claimed it would save customers money. Lower electric bills…
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Colorado Energy Plan will benefit communities, economy and environment
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Colorado’s largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, has a plan to dramatically shift the way we produce energy by increasing the amount of renewable energy produced right here in the Centennial State. Doing so would deliver substantial economic and environmental benefits to Colorado residents in the form of new jobs, increased revenue for communities, and lower…
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Xcel ratepayers would get a bum deal under Colorado Energy Plan
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Late last summer, and with great fanfare, Xcel Energy announced its proposal to close the Comanche I & II power units in Pueblo a decade ahead of schedule. They offered as replacement the euphemistically titled “Colorado Energy Plan” (CEP), a massive $2.5 billion fuel-switching scheme to move its Colorado customers away from baseload, reliable hydrocarbons…
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Kudos to Cory Gardner for defending rural Colorado’s renewable-energy economy
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As a county commissioner, it is my duty to protect jobs and investments that drive our local economy. I am glad to see that this is also a priority for Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner. Sen. Gardner, along with six Republican colleagues, recently submitted a letter to President Trump requesting a narrow tariff exclusion for…
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Next-gen energy technology can give rural Colorado a much-needed boost
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Isn’t technology grand? In the last decade, we’ve seen advancements in technology drive the price of 70 inch TVs from $15,000 in 2007 to around $1,000 today. Think about that. In ten years, a six foot wide TV went from something only the very wealthy could afford to something you could buy with the crumbs…
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WEBB: When opportunity knocks, open the door
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If there is anything I have learned from my collective experiences in Denver and across Colorado, it is to answer the door when opportunity knocks because you never know when – or if – it will knock again. This may seem to be an oversimplified way to look at a new opportunity but it’s not…
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Colorado Energy Plan is good in theory, terrible in reality
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Xcel Energy recently announced that it would use Governor John Hickenlooper’s July executive order calling for climate change policy as reason to bypass the Colorado state legislature and seek regulatory approval of a “Colorado Energy Plan,” which would retire early almost 700 megawatts of coal-fired generating units to be replaced with a new natural gas…
