Tag: Coal
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A tale of two cities: Former coal mining communities scramble to reinvent economies
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Some 260 miles apart, the fortunes of two Western towns in America’s heartland rose with the coal plants that nurtured their economies and powered their regions. But now change is coming. The coal plants are getting shuttered, just as America hurtles away from fossil-fired energy. …
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Part owner of troubled Comanche 3 power plant wants money back from Colorado’s Xcel Energy
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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Q&A with Heidi Ganahl | Colorado’s energy transition is ‘too far, too fast’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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COVER STORY: The cost of cutting coal — Xcel is backing away from coal power, but who pays?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…