energy storage
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Xcel gets green light from Colorado for $2.5 billion clean energy plan
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The Colorado Public Utilities Commission on Monday approved a $2.5 billion plan by Xcel Energy to close coal-fired power plants and add a hefty dose of wind and solar generation so that 55 percent of the utility’s electricity will come from clean energy by 2026. Xcel, Colorado’s largest electricity provider with 3.2 million customers, got…
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Environment Colorado paper backs bill to aid renewable energy storage
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A bipartisan bill this session would allow Coloradans to install storage systems to collect energy, connect it to the grid and cut their outside sources of juice. Senate Bill 9, cosponsored by Sen. Kevin Priola, R-Henderson, and Rep, Steve Fenberg, D-Boulder, This bill would have the Public Utilities Commission to adopt rules for the use…
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Strange bedfellows battery bill puts Xcel on notice
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The state Senate business committee last week voted to kill Sen. Steve Fenberg’s home energy storage bill, but not until after a series of witnesses that included rate-payers, energy-industry entrepreneurs, government engineers, lawyers, environmentalists and a libertarian free-market think tank firebrand testified in support of the bill and fielded questions over the course of hours…
