Xcel Energy Inc. on Monday filed a settlement proposal with state regulators that one supporter said will help the state’s biggest utility improve the electric grid and save customers energy and money.
The settlement agreement focuses on Xcel’s proposal for an “advanced grid intelligence and security” upgrade, including upgrades to the utility’s (NYSE: XEL) network of meters and customers’ homes and businesses.
MINNEAPOLIS -- Xcel Energy (NYSE:XEL), America's leading utility wind energy provider, announced it has plans to make the largest multi-state investment in wind capacity in the nation.
DENVER -- Set to begin March 13, Solar Power Colorado 2017 will explore the theme: Innovation: Making Solar Mainstream through a program filled with more than 70 expert speakers from across the country.
Vestas Wind Systems said it's received an order for 174 wind turbines that will be made in Colorado. The Danish corporation with a big manufacturing presence in Colorado said the 174 turbines will produce 348 megawatts of energy.
Colorado had 6,004 jobs in the solar power sector, up 20 percent from the end of 2015, according to the 2016 National Solar Jobs Census, the seventh annual jobs report from The Solar Foundation.
The CEO of a Thornton solar-powered charger company bought more shares of his company's stock this week and now he owns almost a quarter of the firm.
BOULDER -- More than 68 million light duty hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and battery electric vehicles are expected to be in use globally.
DENVER — Boulder-based Namasté Solar announced Friday that it has completed the installation of solar panels on the roof of the historic Colorado Trade Center in Denver. The 700,000-square-foot building at 5151 Bannock St., near the intersection of Interstates 25 and 70, has been owned by private-equity firm Conscience Bay Co. since 2015.
Colorado, Utah and Nevada will work together to ensure that the three states’ growing network of charging stations for electric vehicles won’t have big holes in it.
The renewable energy unit of electric-power giant Duke Energy has purchased the 14-megawatt Victory Solar Power project in Adams County for an undisclosed price. It is the first solar project in Colorado for Duke Energy Renewables, the commercial renewable energy subsidiary of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK).
Tesla Motors Inc., Elon Musk's electric-car maker, has completed its $2 billion all-stock acquisition of solar-panel installer SolarCity Corp. in a bid to create a company that can sell cars and solar power units at its stores. The deal now is worth a lot less than its $2.6 billion value when it was announced in August as the companies' share price has fallen. The tie-up deal combines two businesses involved in different aspects of solar-power technology.
Environmental and solar energy advocates are hailing state regulators’ approval of a landmark, far-reaching Xcel Energy deal with implications not just for that industry but for how all of the utility’s residents in Colorado someday may be charged for their electricity.
Boulder's proposed city-owned electric utility, which would replace Xcel Energy Inc.’s service to its residents and businesses, “would be cost effective over a 20-year period," the city said Monday.
GOLDEN — The National Renewable Energy Laboratory will spearhead a pilot program of the U.S. Department of Energy to transfer...
Lightning Hybrids, a designer and manufacturer of the hydraulic hybrid ERS (Energy Recovery System) for medium- and heavy-duty fleet vehicles, has been named 2016 Cleantech Breakout Company...
Wind energy is climbing across the United States, with 11 states in 2015 getting at least 10 percent of their total electricity from wind farms, according to the U.S.. energy Information Administration, an arm of the U.S. Department of Energy...
Upslope Brewing Company is one step closer towards its goal of becoming a zero-waste brewery. The Boulder beer-maker has partnered with the ever-resourceful Boom Algae, a Boulder startup that repurposes the CO2 byproduct released in the brewing process as food for algae...
The City of Fort Collins, Colorado State University, and Innosphere, Colorado’s leading technology incubator, have announced the winner of the first Innovate Fort Collins competition.
THORNTON -- Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB:ASTI), a developer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art, flexible thin-film photovoltaic modules integrated into the company's ...
The nation this year is on pace to double the amount of solar power installed in 2015 — and Colorado is doing its part.
That's according to a new study from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association.
The last quarter of the year is usually when the nation’s solar power market peaks in terms of new installations coming online, but this year more than 2 gigawatts — or more than 2,000 megawatts — worth of solar power panels were installed during the second quarter...
A proposal to build Colorado’s biggest wind farm, a 600-megawatt behemoth that would sprawl across several eastern counties, has received major support from a dozen interested parties.
“We believe the settlement announced today, if approved, is a no regrets step towards more renewable energy for Xcel Energy customers and the state of Colorado,” said David Eves, president of the Colorado division of Xcel Energy Inc. (NYSE: XEL) which in May asked the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC)…
A new federal report confirms what might have been apparent already: Vestas Wind Systems is on a roll in the United States.
The Danish wind-turbine manufacturing company, which supplies the U.S. market from four factories in Colorado, accounted for 2,870 of the 8,598 megawatts of wind power installed in the United States last year, according to the Department of Energy’s “2015 Wind Technologies Market Report,” released on Wednesday.
That total gave Vestas 33 percent of the U.S. market in…
Chekota American Horse and his 8-month-old son traveled a few miles from their home on the nearby...
BOULDER — Black Bear Energy Inc., announced on Monday that the 15-month-old Boulder company has raised a $2.5 million Series...