Our children's climate is being pushed over a cliff. This is the time to pay even more attention to Xcel's emissions, and New Era Colorado is up to the task.
DENVER — Colorado regulators are split on Xcel Energy's plan for cutting air pollution from coal-fired power plants by 2018. The Public Utiliti...
DENVER — Xcel Energy's plan to retire about 900 megawatts of coal-fired power generation by 2022 is off the table, as it focuses on doing it by ...
DENVER — Xcel Energy Inc. is studying what it would take to speed up its timetable for retiring some coal-fired power plants to help Colorado me...
A plan by Xcel Energy to shut down coal-fired power plants can't meet Front Range clean-air goals and a 2017 deadline, state health officials said Mon...
Bipartisanship is dead. At least that is what the chattering class would have you believe. Look a little deeper however, and you'll see that there is a different story to tell in the Rocky Mountains.
DENVER — The U.S. Mint in Denver is going green. Xcel Energy said Tuesday that the Mint, which produces coins, will start getting all its elect...
DENVER — Xcel Energy's SmartGridCity is supposed to be an experiment in what a modern energy grid might look like. Since the utility announced ...
LAKEWOOD - About 17,000 customers lost power on Thursday afternoon and Xcel Energy says they may not get it restored until 8 p.m. ...
DENVER — Vestas Wind Systems has received an order for 139 turbines from Renewable Energy Systems Americas for a wind farm RES Americas is build...
Denver had the second-highest increase in electric rates in the country in the first half of this year -- 21.4 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau o...
DENVER (Associated Press)- Federal officials investigating a 2007 fire that killed five workers at a hydroelectric plant said Wednesday that Xcel Ener...
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board on Tuesday released a portion of an animated simulation of the last moments of the lives of workers trapped inside Xcel...
Xcel Energy and one of its contractors are trying to suppress the release of a federal investigative report into the deaths of five workers at the C...
DENVER - Xcel Energy blames equipment failure for a power outage on Monday at the same location where a substation exploded a week ago. Advertisement...
Xcel Energy wants the state to allow it to reduce by nearly half its promise to generate more electricity from solar sources. The utility company a...
If Boulder voters went to the polls today, they would likely turn down both a new franchise agreement with Xcel Energy and a new utility excise tax --...
DENVER — Colorado is pushing its largest utility toward using more natural gas to cut power plant emissions in the Denver area under a new law b...
Derec Shuler wants to be my state senator. He's running for the Senate District 34 seat in northwest Denver recently vacated by Paula Sandoval. He's a Republican in a heavily Democratic district.
DENVER — Xcel Energy is promising to cut air pollution over the next seven years. A deal announced Friday by Gov. Bill Ritter, the company and ...
A spokesman for Xcel Energy told the Colorado Independent today that the company has not proposed a nuclear power plant for Colorado. Tom Henley, Seni...
The Colorado Air Pollution Control Division rejected calls to keep CO2 emission in check at the Valmont coal-fired power plant in Boulder. Are there any limits on carbon in Colorado?
There are many obstacles to transition our dependency on traditional fossil fuels to cleaner energy solutions, and Ritter has demonstrated the courage to confront those obstacles.
DENVER — Colorado Democratic state lawmakers want to increase the amount of electricity coming from renewable sources, saying the move will help...
Despite a new wind turbine in Boulder, the elephant in the middle of the New Energy Economy is Comanche 3, the 750 megawatt coal plant in Colorado coming online as soon as next month.
