natural gas
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Residents want Denver building code to be greener, more electric focused
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Denver voters are a half-step closer to determining the future of the former Park Hill Golf Course land. The city’s Land Use, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Tuesday sent a resolution to city council that authorizes the city to put the question of whether the land should stay open space or be cleared to allow development…
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Colorado Springs Utilities rates could be lower than anticipated this winter
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Colorado Springs Utilities expects rates will be lower than previously anticipated this winter. Estimates presented to the Utilities board Wednesday showed an average December bill could be around $340 about $30 lower than originally anticipated, a presentation showed. Colorado Springs Utilities expects bills on par with last winter The cost of electricity and natural gas…
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Xcel Energy announces a natural gas cost adjustment that lowers energy bills in December
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Xcel Energy says thanks to a recent decrease in wholesale natural gas prices, residential ratepayers will see energy bill cuts averaging $33, (16.71%) and cuts to average small business customers of $140 (17.61%). The price cut must be approved by the Public Utilities Commission, and is only for December. Tuesday’s announcement comes just one day…
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Sierra Club, environmental groups petition EPA to ban natural gas for home heating
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More than two dozen environmental organizations petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of natural gas for home heating nationwide, arguing the federal agency must regulate “deadly pollution from heating appliances.” The petition, sponsored by the Sierra Club, claims fossil fuel-fired home furnaces, water heaters, clothes dryers and stoves emit enough nitrogen dioxide…
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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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State Supreme Court agrees Weld County gas pipeline is not a public utility
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A 62-mile pipeline that gathers raw natural gas in Weld County and transports it to processing facilities is not a public utility under state law, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The justices heard the appeal of William C. Danks, who owns a farm in the county and filed his original complaint with the…
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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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Polis slams ruling that favors Xcel hiking residential gas bills by at least 11%
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Gov. Jared Polis on Friday slammed an administrative ruling that favors Xcel Energy’s request to recover $509 million from Colorado ratepayers for the costs incurred during a winter spell in February last year that wreaked havoc throughout the Midwest, killing more than 200 people nationwide. In her ruling on Wednesday, Administrative Law Judge Melody Mirbaba…
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Utilities worry over proposal mandating faster reconnection of power service
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More than 44 million Americans are struggling this month to pay energy bills, according to the U.S. Census Household Pulse Survey. Half a million of those Americans are in Colorado. And their inability to pay electric or natural gas bills – or both – can mean service disconnection, and with winter chills ahead, that can be a…
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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…
