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Colorado Springs takes major step toward cleaner energy with completion of $200 million natural gas units at Martin Drake
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In a landmark moment in Colorado Springs’ move toward cleaner electricity generation, six new natural gas generating units now stand where coal once piled up near the closed Martin Drake Power Plant downtown. “The utilities industry is changing by the day – from market costs and technology to regulatory mandates and deadlines,” Colorado Springs Utilities Board…
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With Drake’s closure, Colorado Springs Utilities to temporarily buy power on open market
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Colorado Springs Utilities will end natural gas power production at the downtown Martin Drake Power Plant Thursday as the agency moves toward cleaner electricity generation. Drake is one of the last urban power plants in the country to close and, ultimately, Utilities plans to reclaim the entire downtown site, a process that could take several…
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Colorado Springs Utilities to end power production at Drake
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Colorado Springs Utilities will shut down power production at the downtown Martin Drake Power Plant on Thursday as part of long-term plans to take down one of the last remaining urban power plants in the country. “Today’s milestone is bittersweet because it marks the end of an era. Our city will move forward with…
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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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Partial shutdown of Colorado Springs coal power plant proposed
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The days of a coal-fired power plant looming over downtown Colorado Springs appear to be coming to an end, and probably sooner rather than later. The second of three units at the Martin Drake Power Plant, whose stacks dominate the skyline of the developing southern end of the city’s downtown, should be shut down by…
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State air quality panel sets hearing on Colorado Springs power plant
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Support for and opposition to a renewed operating permit for Colorado Springs Utilities’ coal-fired Martin Drake Power Plant will be heard Monday night by the state Air Quality Control Commission. The overdue permit would cement clean-air rules and regulations that apply to the plant, said Roland Hea, permitting section supervisor for the Air Pollution Control…
