Colorado’s utility companies have been planning for nearly two decades to shutter their coal-burning power plants and transition to cleaner alternatives.

Xcel calls its proposal, which includes the coal facility in Pueblo, a just transition plan. In 2019, the legislature approved creation of the Office of Just Transition to help workers and ...

Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Xcel Energy’s coal-fired Comanche Generating Station in Pueblo, Colorado, seen before sunrise, Jan. 30, 2024.

Pueblo could soon be home to a battery storage system designed to hold solar- and wind-generated energy on the site of Xcel Energy's soon-to-close Comanche 3 power plant. The Comanche 3 coal-fired ...

"Today's settlement will protect the Pueblo community and surrounding environment by ensuring the safe disposal and management of coal ash at the Comanche power plant," Suzanne Bohan, EPA Region 8 ...

Xcel Energy will continue paying Pueblo approximately $30 million per year after Comanche 3 closes in 2031 and is incentivized to bring more renewables.

Pueblo could soon be home to a battery storage system designed to hold solar- and wind-generated energy on the site of Xcel Energy's soon-to-close Comanche 3 power plant. The Comanche 3 coal-fired ...

Xcel Energy Colorado and several Pueblo community leaders have formed an advisory committee to evaluate clean-energy strategies that would help replace the Xcel 3 Comanche coal plant, which is ...

Xcel paid Pueblo nearly $31 million in property taxes last year, a significant share of which goes to public schools, libraries, water conservation districts and the governments themselves, ...

The Colorado Public Utilities Commission tabled a request by Xcel Energy to once again shorten the operating life of the Comanche power station’s Unit 3 near Pueblo, the last of three generating ...

Xcel Energy recently announced its intent to construct a long duration energy storage system at the site of a coal-fired power plant in Pueblo. Once operational, the system in Colorado "will allow ...

Xcel has agreed to pay $15.9 million annually in property taxes on the idled coal plant through 2040, a decade after it closes. (Holy Cross has not been asked, a spokeswoman said). What could work for ...