{"id":503391,"date":"2010-04-01T23:15:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T03:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=7851"},"modified":"2010-04-01T23:15:19","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T03:15:19","slug":"xcel-energy-cuts-colorado-coal-use-by-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/503391","title":{"rendered":"Xcel Energy Cuts Colorado Coal Use by 30%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/Pine_Bark_Beetle_Destroyed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7854\" title=\"Pine_Bark_Beetle_Destroyed\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/Pine_Bark_Beetle_Destroyed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nColorado&#8217; s largest utility, Xcel Energy is shutting down 900 MW of coal  plants and replacing them with natural gas power plants. This move by  just one utility will reduce the entire Colorado coal power fleet by a  staggering 30%. What prompted this rather dazzling move?<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leg.state.co.us\/clics\/clics2010a\/csl.nsf\/fsbillcont\/0CA296732C8CEF4D872576E400641B74?Open&amp;file=1365_ren.pdf\">Colorado    Clean Air \u2013 Clean Jobs Act<\/a> just passed. Badda bing.<\/p>\n<p>All new (or re-powered)  electric power plants may not emit more than 1,100  pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour, effectively ruling out coal  burning (without CCS).<\/p>\n<p>All utilities in the state must find a way to  achieve the goal. They can replace or re-power coal plants with natural  gas or add energy efficiency measures such as combined heat &amp; power,  or they can switch to renewable energy sources.<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/01\/xcel-energy-cuts-colorado-coal-use-by-30\/#more-7851\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=uvm7Yc4GIuk:gSGTYpCuziU:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=uvm7Yc4GIuk:gSGTYpCuziU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=uvm7Yc4GIuk:gSGTYpCuziU:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=uvm7Yc4GIuk:gSGTYpCuziU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=uvm7Yc4GIuk:gSGTYpCuziU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=uvm7Yc4GIuk:gSGTYpCuziU:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?i=uvm7Yc4GIuk:gSGTYpCuziU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?a=uvm7Yc4GIuk:gSGTYpCuziU:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/cleantechnica\/com?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/cleantechnica\/com\/~4\/uvm7Yc4GIuk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado&#8217; s largest utility, Xcel Energy is shutting down 900 MW of coal plants and replacing them with natural gas power plants. This move by just one utility will reduce the entire Colorado coal power fleet by a staggering 30%. What prompted this rather dazzling move? The Colorado Clean Air \u2013 Clean Jobs Act just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}