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Colorado Coal Plant ProposalsColorado currently receives more than 70 percent of its electricity from coal-fired power plants, and plans are in place to build more. Here is a list of the current proposals. Follow the links to find out more about each proposal and what efforts are underway to oppose them:
1. PuebloLocation: Pueblo Company: Xcel Energy Type: Supercritical pulverized coal plant Megawatts (MW): 750 Owner: Utility The Xcel power plant is under construction and scheduled to be in service by 2010. A settlement between Xcel Energy and a group of citizens and environmental organizations resulted in the groups agreeing to drop their opposition to the plant in exchange for Xcel’s agreement to reduce air pollution from two existing coal fired generating units at the site and significantly increase investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency resources. Two other citizens groups are continuing to take legal action to halt the plant’s construction. 2. LamarLocation: Lamar Company: City of Lamar Type: Conversion of gas plant to coal plant Megawatts (MW): 30 Owner: CO-OPS Contact: Pam Kiely at pkiely@environmentcolorado.org or 303-573-3871 x336. 3. LimonLocation: Limon Company: Radar Acquisitions Corporation Type: Pulverized coal or circulating fluidized bed plant Megawatts (MW): 500 Owner: Merchant Radar has proposed a $900 million lignite powered coal plant 4. Eastern Colorado - Tristate GenerationLocation: Have not chosen location, potentially near Lamar Company: Tri-State Type: Conventional pulverized coal Megawatts (MW): 600 Owner: CO-OPS Tri-State is looking into building two 700 MW plants in Kansas as well as the 600 MW proposed plant in Southeastern Colorado. Western Resource Advocates analyzed data provided by Tri-State to show that the construction of these plants, a $5 billion project, would result in wholesale rates jumping at least 64% in the next five years. In addition, Tri-State has the ability to meet the energy demands of its customers without building any additional coal plants. |
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