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Natural Gas Bill (Re: “Why rush natural gas bill?” Vincent Carroll column)

March 30, 2010
Why is Big Coal trying so hard to convince us that coal is cheapest and the cleanest? Why are they fighting against using natural gas as an alternative?
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Colorado Senate passes clean-air bill favoring natural gas

March 31, 2010

Xcel Energy got a green light from the state legislature Tuesday to start a comprehensive plan to cut air pollution at aging coal-fired power plants — with "primary consideration" to switching to natural gas.

On a voice vote, the state Senate approved a bill that requires Xcel Energy to cut emissions of nitrogen oxides by 70 to 80 percent by 2017 at aging Front Range c

Nation Should Follow Colorado's Lead

March 25, 2010

Colorado is now claiming national leadership in American's transition to a new energy economy. Gov.

Clean air and clean jobs

March 26, 2010

Earlier this week [March 22, 2010] at a local solar energy company, a large crowd cheered as Governor Ritter signed a bill that continues Colorado's role as a nat

Ritter signs bill requiring greater use of renewable energy by 2020

March 23, 2010

Colorado, already viewed as a renewable energy leader, took another step Monday when Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law a bill that will give the state the highest renewable energy standard in the Rocky Mountain West.

The measure requires that 30 percent of electricity be generated from renewable sources by 2020.

Xcel says $1.5 million system will ease power-plant noise

March 12, 2010

Xcel Energy said Thursday that it will install a noise-canceling system by the end of April that should eliminate the high-pitched sound emanating from its new Comanche 3 power plant in Pueblo.

Steel baffles will be inserted into the bottom half of the unit's smokestack, absorbing and altering the frequencies of a sound that Xcel believes is coming from a pair of fans that generate boiler

Renewable energy bill headed toward passage

March 5, 2010

The Colorado House of Representives has passed a bill requiring Colorado utilities to use more renewable energy, sending the legislation to the governor Ritter's desk. The new law would increase the state renewable portfolio standard to 30%. That would make Colorado's Renewable Energy Standard one of the most aggressive in the nation.

A proposal requiring Colorado utilities to use more renewable energy, including smaller-scale solar projects, is headed toward passage at the Capitol.

The Senate pas

Xcel plans tiered electricity rates this summer

March 4, 2010

The Public Utilities Commission Wednesday approved the two-tiered rate as part of Xcel's $128.3 million rate increase. The rate increase is mostly designed to pay for the new Unit III coal-fired power plant in Pueblo, CO.

Running central air conditioning or pool pumps could lead to a bigger Xcel Energy bills under new tiered rates that will charge big residential electricity consumer

Officials reconsider mercury-emissions limits at Comanche III

Stacks at Commanche III
October 17, 2009
Mercury pollution from Xcel Energy's new Comanche 3 power plant has become an issue even before the plant has gone online. The state Department of Public Health and Environment is re-evaluating the unit's pollution-control permit and an environmental group is suing to require tougher controls.

"We didn't know a lot about mercury or about mercury capture four years ago when Comanche 3's permit was written," said James Martin, director of the Department of Public Health and Environment.

Xcel selects green power

August 11, 2009
Xcel Energy on Monday proposed adding nearly 1,000 megawatts of solar and wind power to its energy portfolio by 2015. That is equal to a medium-sized coal-burning plant and enough energy to power 750,000 homes. The utility filed its plan with the Public Utilities Commission.

Under state law, Xcel must generate 20 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2020. It currently generates 10 percent of its electricity from renewables.

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