United Power pushes ahead on battery storage
Colorado’s second largest cooperative 313.34 megawatt-hours of storage at six locations across its service territory
United Power and Guzman cut a deal
Denver-based wholesaler to deliver a third of power for Colorado’s second-largest electricity cooperative. Where will the rest come from?
Getting Holy Cross-wise over net metering
Lots of issues here: social equity, closing in on 100% renewables — and whether rates adopted by Colorado’s forward-looking utility would break state law. Will that law be changed?
United Power’s plan for after Tri-State G&T
Colorado’s second largest electrical cooperative has contracted with The Energy Authority to manage electrical supplies beginning in 2024
Tri-State and the big bad wolf
Member cooperatives are tempted to hop the fence to graze on greener renewable energy. Chief executive Duane Highley warns his flock about a big, bad wolf called resource adequacy. Can he keep them in his fold?
At United Power, talk of hyper-localization
CEO of electric cooperative dismisses “doom and gloom.” But he does outline a future after Tri-State that will be more complex.
Solar coming on like gangbusters
10,000 solar roof-tops in Colorado’s United Power service territory, a temporary setback for Pivot Energy, and solar replaces coal in northwestern New Mexico.
Staggering sums in United Power-Tri-State G&T case
Jurors are to hear arguments in July about whether Tri-State violated Colorado law in adding three new members. United Power claims gigantic financial losses.
Mountain Parks: We’re out of here
Electric cooperative in Colorado sets the two-year clock ticking with Tri-State G&T as it begins talks in earnest with new wholesale providers
How can EVs help shave peak demands?
United Power wants to work with 50 EV owners to figure out how their batteries can best be used to manage demands on the electrical grid.
Colorado energy gleanings
United Power has joined the Southwest Power Pool, solar trade group lauds Morgan County, and Colorado’s new transmission group slow to get off ground.
Pink slips at Tri-State G&T
A 3% reduction in staffing by Tri-State G&T includes several senior executives, a reflection of the challenges facing the wholesale provider.
