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Colorado lawmakers mull competing bills on data centers
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A Colorado coalition of data center developers and operators is urging lawmakers to pass a proposal that offers tax breaks to attract large facilities, while calling a competing bill a major obstacle to new investment. Meanwhile, proponents of the latter proposal have maintained they don’t intend to ban, via regulation, the building of new data…
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Businesses face losses after Xcel power shutoffs
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Restaurants west of Denver are still coming to grips with product losses and future revenue concerns after power shutoffs last week by Xcel Energy, which cited high winds as the rationale for the decision. “It’s like living in a third-world country,” Brandon Bortles, owner of Nosu Ramen and Abejas Bistro in Golden, said Tuesday. “We’re…
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Colorado residents face high energy bills after regulators turn away from natural gas, experts say
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Colorado residents could be paying a lot more for home energy, following the state’s decision last week to turn away from natural gas as a home cooking and heating fuel, experts said. Some 1.9 million Colorado households warm their homes each winter using gas. That’s also how tens of thousands of businesses heat their buildings.…
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Colorado Supreme Court to examine whether corporations can be liable for ‘felonious killing’
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The Colorado Supreme Court recently announced that it will determine whether corporations can be liable for a “felonious killing,” meaning there is no limit to the damages they might pay for pain and suffering after causing a wrongful death. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to take a case on appeal.…
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Part owner of troubled Comanche 3 power plant wants money back from Colorado’s Xcel Energy
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A part owner of the troubled and soon-to-be decommissioned Comanche Power Station Unit 3 near Pueblo wants its money back. CORE Electrical Cooperative delivered a notice Sept. 6 to the Public Service Company of Colorado (PSCo), Xcel Energy’s Colorado branch, saying it is withdrawing from its partial ownership of the facility and demanding a refund…
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10th Circuit upholds jury verdict for Xcel Energy in discrimination lawsuit
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The federal appeals court based in Denver has upheld a jury’s verdict finding Xcel Energy did not discriminate against a former worker on the basis of her race and sex by failing to promote her. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit reviewed a narrow aspect of the case:…
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Colo. Supreme Court recharges Xcel’s challenge to Boulder utility
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The Colorado Supreme Court has revived Xcel Energy Inc.’s legal challenge to Boulder’s plans to establish its own municipal power utility. The court Tuesday overruled decisions by a Boulder district judge and the Colorado Court of Appeals in saying the 2014 Xcel suit should be heard in district court, the Boulder Daily Camera reports. Xcel…
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COVER STORY: The cost of cutting coal — Xcel is backing away from coal power, but who pays?
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Today, rumbling conveyor belts feed a stream of coal to units 1 and 2 at Xcel Energy’s Comanche Generating Station, just outside Pueblo. But the endless flow of coal and the roaring boilers could begin to go quiet in the next four years under a plan before Colorado regulators. But in shuttering the two 1970s-vintage…
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Xcel’s plan to shutter 2 Colorado coal-fired plants called ‘momentous’
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A Colorado Public Utilities Commission hearing Thursday on Xcel Energy’s plan to close coal-fired plants and boost renewable energy drew an overflow crowd that included a mother with a babe in arms, a middle school student, a math professor, a former Peace Corps worker and representatives of farmers and rural areas-all in favor of the…
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Gov. John Hickenlooper unveils Colorado’s plan to charge up electric vehicles
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Gov. John Hickenlooper said he doesn’t drive himself around as governor, but next year when he’s term-limited out of office and is again a civilian, he’ll motor around the state in an electric vehicle. He’ll be able to do that more reliably because of the plan he rolled out Wednesday morning to spur the placement…
