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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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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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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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Colorado PUC report highlights benefits, downside to new state law on wholesale electric market
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A state law requiring Colorado’s electric power producers to participate in “an organized wholesale market” for electricity could negatively impact the state’s “nationally recognized success with robust competition for generation development,” a report issued by the Colorado Public Utilities Commission warns. Joining one particular wholesale market could, for example, subordinate Colorado’s power needs to another state’s…
