Tag: Renewable Energy
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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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Polis to phase out gas-powered lawn equipment at Colorado facilities
A gas-powered push lawn mower emits as much pollution per hour as 11 cars
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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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Land swap completed for construction of renewable energy campus in Golden
Gov. Jared Polis’ plan to build an epicenter for renewable energy development took another step forward on Thursday, with the completion of land swaps for his Global Energy Park to be constructed on. The “Glo Park” campus is intended to house companies and universities focused on the development of and transition toward clean, renewable, sustainable and…
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New regulatory agency over electric grid expansion begins early phase of work
A new regulatory agency with authority over electrical grid expansions and operations and which can finance and build infrastructure if utilities won’t — or can’t afford to — has begun getting organized, with the goal of ultimately adding power lines to aid Colorado’s transition away from fossil fuel. The Colorado Electric Transmission Authority, which legislators…
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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…