Tag: Coal
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Colorado governor signs bill requiring pollution controls, cost reporting for extended coal operations
Gov. Jared Polis signed into law a bill in reaction to orders from the U.S. Department of Energy to keep older coal units online. The federal government’s instructions applied to Craig Unit 1 in Colorado, one of five coal units affected nationwide. The state legislation requires installation of modern pollution controls and cost reporting for…
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Coal-fired generator at Pueblo’s Comanche Power Plant gets a one-year extension on life
The Comanche Power Plant in Pueblo will continue to operate a coal-powered electrical generating unit that was slated for retirement this month for one more year. The move comes after Xcel Energy, the state’s largest utility company, petitioned in November to keep one generator operating after an outage at the coal-fired power plant. Gov. Jared…
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Colowyo coal mine near Craig lays off 133 workers as mine closes
Neil McCandless sat in a Craig coffee shop, reminiscing on his 94 years in a town that has gone from sheep ranching to coal mining to power production but which is now moving toward an uncertain future. Coal mining is ending in Craig, and the closure of power plants is in sight. And the latest…
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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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Xcel Energy president, Robert Kenney, discusses the fate of Xcel’s obsolete coal power plants and how their existing infrastructure may be used
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Xcel Energy president, Robert Kenney, sits down with the Denver Gazette to talk all things Colorado power
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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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LIFE | The living history of Cokedale, Colorado
Cokedale is nestled eight miles west of Trinidad where it began as a 100 man tent colony in 1899. By 1901 it was bought out by Guggenheims’ and proclaimed to be “a model coal camp”. Ruins of coking ovens can still be seen today across the highway 12. Today, around 130 people call Cokedale home,…