Tag: Renewable Energy
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Nuclear power to fuel Denver International Airport?
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver International Airport officials announced on Wednesday that they are soliciting a study on the feasibility of building a nuclear power plant to take the airport to energy independence using a small modular reactor on its 34,000-acre facility. The study will examine questions about nuclear…
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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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Officials: Moving electricity by train can help reduce carbon pollution from power plants
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Xcel Energy Colorado CEO Robert Kenney announced a pilot project on Wednesday to move electricity much slower than the speed of light — at perhaps 60 mph. By train, that is. The Wireless Alternative by Train Transport (WATT) project is testing the viability of shipping up to two gigawatt-hours of renewable…
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Xcel Energy’s 10-megawatt iron-air battery demonstration project takes off in Pueblo
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Xcel Energy is partnering with Form Energy, an energy storage technology company, to build two 10-megawatt iron-air battery demonstration projects: one at the soon-to-be shuttered Comanche power plant site near Pueblo and another at the likewise retiring Sherburne County Generating Station in Becker, Minn. At a meeting in Pueblo on Thursday, Xcel Energy, Form Energy,…
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Colorado approves $2.5M in tax incentives for 3 companies eyeing expansions
The Colorado Economic Development Commission approved more than $2.5 million in total tax incentives on Thursday for three companies looking to expand, or move, into the state. Most of the tax incentives went to an unnamed renewable energy company based in the U.K. looking to set up a headquarters and factory for its North American…
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Xcel Energy moves dirt on phase 2 of Power Pathway Project
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Xcel Energy officials gathered recently at the company’s Fort Saint Vrain power plant near Platteville for a symbolic groundbreaking of its first75-mile segment of the company’s $1.7 billion Power Pathway project. Eventually, the project comprised of 550-miles of high-voltage electric transmission lines in eastern Colorado…
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Xcel Energy proposes $15 billion plan to add renewable energy to its system
Xcel Energy proposed a $15 billion “preferred plan” to add an “unprecedented” amount of renewable energy to its grid over the next seven years that would double the amount of renewable energy on the system. The company’s Clean Energy Plan, submitted to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission Tuesday, shows Xcel could add $10 to the…
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Rust never sleeps — Xcel iron-air grid battery project gets $10 million boost
A new, longer-duration grid scale battery storage technology under development is getting a big financial boost. Xcel Energy is partnering with Form Energy, an energy storage technology company, to build a 10-megawatt commercial iron-air battery demonstration project at the soon-to-be shuttered Comanche power plant site near Pueblo. A commitment of $10 million in grant funding…
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Rushed transition to renewable energy could cost lives, critics say
Achieving Gov. Jared Polis’ 100% renewable energy goal by 2035 is technologically impossible – at least for now – and could cost people their lives, critics of Colorado’s transition away from fossil fuel toward toward renewable energy said at a recent forum. They pointed to the experience of California, which suffered a widespread rolling blackout in…