Xcel Says It Can’t Shut Down its Coal Plants by 2030. Believe Them.
Xcel Energy’s March 2 filing with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) reads like a company trying to get ahead of a crisis. On paper, it might be just a simple status update about Comanche Unit 3, a coal-fired plant near Pueblo, which is undergoing repairs. Instead, Xcel sounds the alarm about grid reliability. According […]
Primer: HB 1291, an Illegal Rip-off
What is HB 1291? On Monday, by a 58-7 vote, the Colorado House of Representatives passed HB 1291, legislation that approves the Air Quality Control Commission’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan. HB 1291 comes before the Senate State Affairs Committee next Tuesday, April 19. What is a Regional Haze State Implementation Plan? In the 1977 […]
