Tag: xcel
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EDITORIAL: What’s the cost of no power to Coloradans?
It long has been fashionable among the zero-emissions set to “calculate” the wide-ranging costs to society of carbon-emitting fuels. The perils posed by that carbon footprint are said to range from ill health to doomsday for all humanity. The probability of either of those scenarios, or any in between, varies from one advocacy group to…
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Proposal seeks to balance emissions goals with blackout risks in Colorado
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A group of researchers is proposing a “social cost of blackouts” framework to balance reliability and energy affordability with emissions reduction goals in electricity planning. The approach, from Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling of Always On Energy Research, would give regulators a tool similar to the federal government’s “social cost of carbon.” That federal metric…
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Proposal seeks to balance emissions goals with blackout risks in Colorado
A group of researchers is proposing a “social cost of blackouts” framework to balance reliability and energy affordability with emissions reduction goals in electricity planning. The approach, from Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling of Always On Energy Research, would give regulators a tool similar to the federal government’s “social cost of carbon.” That federal metric…
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Proposal seeks to balance emissions goals with blackout risks in Colorado
A group of researchers is proposing a “social cost of blackouts” framework to balance reliability and energy affordability with emissions reduction goals in electricity planning. The approach, from Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling of Always On Energy Research, would give regulators a tool similar to the federal government’s “social cost of carbon.” That federal metric…
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Are our overlords normalizing power outages? | Jon Caldara
I’ve lived in Colorado since 1970. And you know what Colorado had back in 1970? High winds blowing down the Front Range. I moved to Boulder in 1984 and have been there ever since. And you know what Boulder has had all that time? A freakin’ lot of high winds. I remember as a college…
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Colorado lawmakers mull competing bills on data centers
A Colorado coalition of data center developers and operators is urging lawmakers to pass a proposal that offers tax breaks to attract large facilities, while calling a competing bill a major obstacle to new investment. Meanwhile, proponents of the latter proposal have maintained they don’t intend to ban, via regulation, the building of new data…
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Power restored after outage impacts Denver airport trains, 195k customers Sunday
A power outage in southeast metro Denver was restored Sunday evening after halting the Denver International Airport trains and leaving 195,000 customers without electricity. In a statement provided to The Denver Gazette’s news partners 9NEWS Sunday night, Xcel said just before 3 p.m. Sunday, a transformer failed at an Xcel substation, resulting in damage to…
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Xcel president says Polis criticism ‘uninformed,’ most to get power back by 10 p.m.
As tens of thousands of Xcel Energy customers remained without power Saturday morning, officials said criticism about what some called the organization’s lack of communication was unwarranted. Robert Kenney, president of Xcel Energy Colorado, said that the company had communicated with customers as early as last week about potential power shutoffs, and had worked with…
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Colorado Supreme Court to examine whether corporations can be liable for ‘felonious killing’
The Colorado Supreme Court recently announced that it will determine whether corporations can be liable for a “felonious killing,” meaning there is no limit to the damages they might pay for pain and suffering after causing a wrongful death. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to take a case on appeal.…
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Calhan neighbors oppose wind farm expansion, citing health concerns
Rebecca Nusbaum came home from work one day in June to find a sticky note on her front door. Someone was interested in talking to her about a local wind turbine project. “Huh,” she thought. Nusbaum already can see all 145 wind turbines of the Golden West Wind Energy Center from the back deck of…