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

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, Colorado’s largest electric utility, plans to end its use of the coal plant in Hayden in 2028 and the last of three units at the Comanche Generating Station near Pueblo by 2031.

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 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 ...

Coal-burning for electrical generation will end in Craig before New Year's Day of 2028 arrives. Will a new gas plant arrive ...

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 ...

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

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

"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 ...

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 ...

Many speakers said Xcel Energy should stop burning coal as soon as possible and that the Comanche plant should close no later than 2030. They said Pueblo County should then focus on replacing the ...