Tri-State G&T’s plan to deeply decarbonize its electrical supply in Colorado is voluminous, but it leaves many blanks to be filled in later.
Colorado Public Utilities Commission
A new era for Tri-State
Colorado’s second biggest electrical utility will soon identify its path to 80% reduced emissions by 2030. Surely this map will include Arizona and Wyoming.
Who’s next at Colorado PUC?
Who will replace Jeffrey Ackermann as chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission, an agency with a vital role in Colorado’s decarbonization agenda?
A shallow win for Tri-State
Tri-State Generation and Transmission gains a shallow victory in FERC order about jurisdiction, but the real story will be about legality of new members. At stake are exit fees of hundreds of million dollars—and perhaps the viability of Tri-State itself.
Colorado’s natural gas pivot
Colorado begins a conversation about limiting natural gas in new construction as necessary for the state to meet its carbon reduction goals.
The cost of leaving Tri-State G&T
United Power would pay $234.8 million to leave Tri-State Generation & Transmission under a methodology recommended by an administrative law judge to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.
Solar more expensive than necessary?
In renewable generation, as in grocery shopping, prices do matter. This former NREL researcher makes the case that Colorado utilities should not be forced to grab some expensive solar when cheaper solar can be had.
Xcel Energy thinks big in EV charging
Xcel Energy proposes to spend $102 million in laying out charging infrastructure in its service territory in Colorado, where the state has a goal of rapidly expanding EV sales to 42% of all cars sales by 2030.
Retire Colorado’s newest coal plant?
When Comanche 3 began producing electricity in 2010, the coal-burning unit at Pueblo, Colo., was projected to continue operations to 2070. Now, it’s an open question whether it will continue operations beyond 2030.
United Power alleges Tri-State G&T crossed legal line to ‘imprison’ it in supply contract to 2050
A Trojan horse, deceit, and subterfuge—United Power says it was all there as wholesale supplier Tri-State Generation and Transmission assembled a strategy to make sure it would have to stay “imprisoned” in its contract with Tri-State through 2050, foregoing savings in lower-cost renewable energy and avoiding regulators in Colorado.
