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Xcel gets the green light for $2 billion power line expansion
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The Colorado Public Utilities Commission gave Xcel Energy permission to spend at least $2 billion to build up to 650 miles of new high-voltage power lines in southern and eastern Colorado to serve windmills and solar farms. The company’s customers will pay for the new transmission lines through what’s called the Transmission Cost Adjustment rider…
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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 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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Xcel seeks OK of $2.5B Colo. renewable energy plan
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Xcel Energy Inc. submitted a plan to Colorado regulators Wednesday seeking approval of a $2.5 billion program to transform electricity generation in the state, turning away from coal and natural gas and relying more heavily on renewable energy. The proposed Colorado Energy Plan (CEP) by the state’s largest electricity provider, with 3.1 million customers in…
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A year later, Colorado Energy Office one step closer to reauthorization
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What a difference a year makes: On Wednesday the House Transportation & Energy Committee gave near-unanimous support to reauthorizing the Colorado Energy Office (CEO). The CEO, which is housed in the governor’s office, was the subject of a heated debate last year. Ultimately the bill failed in a power struggle between Senate Republicans, who wanted to…
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Colorado political consulting firms take home Reed Awards for campaign work
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Three Colorado political consulting firms recently took home Reed Awards honoring their work producing campaign material last year. The awards, sponsored by Campaigns & Elections magazine and named for the political journal’s founder, Stanley Foster Reed, were handed out at a conference on Feb. 27 in Charleston, South Carolina. They recognized work in a multitude…
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NOONAN: Renewables can transform the state’s regulatory environment
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Renewable energy disruption may bring regulatory relief to Coloradans if Xcel pursues wind/solar energy bids to replace two coal-fired power plants. Xcel brought the bids to the Public Utilities Commission recently, showing that wind and solar are now more than competitive with oil and gas for electricity production. The economics of switching to renewables will…
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As Pueblo eyes a fossil-fuel-free future, Mother Jones takes note
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A Pueblo city councilman wants the Steel City to rely completely on alternative energy by 2035, and he’s catching some national attention for it. Larry Atencio, the representative from Pueblo’s East Side, told Mother Jones what he envisions for the city, which has been in upheaval over energy prices for everal years. Atencio first introduced…
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‘The global advanced energy transition is underway, and Colorado should take pride in showing the way’
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During my 40 years serving in the United States Air Force, issues around energy were always present. We needed energy to power our bases, fuel our fleets of aircraft, and we needed all of that energy to be reliable and affordable. As we rely more and more on sophisticated technology to execute our missions, that…
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Out West Roundup: Utah Republicans rally for Romney after Bannon remark on his Mormon faith
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Utah Utah Republicans rally for Romney after Bannon remark on his Mormon faith Mitt Romney’s allies lashed out at former White House strategist Steve Bannon last week after he said at an Alabama rally that Romney and his family “hid behind” their Mormon religion to avoid military service. Sen. Orrin Hatch and other prominent Utah…
