Tag: Electricity
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Colorado’s energy crunch: Can renewables keep pace with data center demands? | ANALYSIS
Colorado faces mounting pressure on its electrical grid as data centers and advanced manufacturing drive up power needs, even as the state moves away from coal and natural gas, in favor of wind and solar energies, and battery systems. At the same time, Colorado is competing with surrounding states to attract data centers and technology…
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Colorado’s 2040 ‘renewable’ energy goal faces cost challenges
A new state report outlined how Colorado plans to reach 100% “renewable” electricity by 2040, a goal that supporters argued is crucial to achieving “net zero” carbon in a few decades but which critics countered is happening too quickly at a significant cost to consumers. The report examined a buildout of wind, solar, batteries and…
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Poll: Colorado residents paying 24% more for electricity
New survey says rates are up nationwide and consumers are worried
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Colorado could see big hikes in electricity rates, new report shows
Colorado residential electricity consumers could pay as much as $6,400 to $9,280 total more in electricity costs per household than they do now through 2040, according to a report from the Common Sense Institute. “Driven by state policy mandates to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, electricity prices are projected to grow at more than three times…
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Power shut off planned southwest of Boulder as temperatures drop this weekend
The United Power outage, which is expected from 11 p.m. Saturday to 1:30 a.m. Sunday will impact 5,000 customers
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Xcel details energy plan amid Colorado heatwave
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save With potentially record-breaking heat pushing through the metro Denver area this weekend, many homes will be relying on air conditioning to get through — all stemming from electricity. Xcel Energy — which serves over 3.7 million customers throughout eight states, including Colorado — is planning ahead on keeping energy…
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Frozen and thawing water pipes lead to hundreds of emergency calls in Denver
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The majority of roughly 600 calls that the Denver Fire Department answered on Monday, the coldest day of the polar vortex that covered the metro area over the weekend, involved burst water pipes. And though temperatures picked back up into the mid-to-high 30s on Tuesday, the city received 780 more calls, most of which dealt…
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Fourth decrease in energy prices from Xcel Energy announced
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As wholesale natural gas prices continue to drop, Xcel Energy filed its quarterly electric and gas commodity adjustments with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission Monday. With these adjustments, over the last six months Xcel says the fourth decrease in energy prices will have reduced its…
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Generators for Ukraine – Colorado Springs-led group acts to save citizens from deep-freeze
Not even the sparkle of 1,000 holiday lights can assuage Yana Malyk’s troubled heart, knowing that her own country has gone dark. There is almost zero power for heat or cooking in Luhansk, an Eastern Ukrainian province on the Russian border, due to constant bombings from Vladimir Putin’s forces. The Ukrainian refugee with movie star…
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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