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Tri-State to Acquire Wind Energy
April 8, 2007
The Denver Business Journal reported Thursday that
Tri-State Generation and Transmission in Westminster is moving
quickly to obtain wind energy. The company made the announcement it
will acquire 50 megawatts of wind generating capacity to meet the
requirements of the state’s new renewable portfolio standard for
rural electric cooperatives of 10% by 2020.
Tri-State General Manager and Executive Vice
President J.M. Shafer announced Thursday that the company has
adjusted its resource expansion plan to add wind energy and to
postpone construction of a 700 MW coal-fired power plant in western
Kansas. Tri-State is the second largest generator in Colorado and
supplies power to 18 rural electric cooperatives in the state.
As part of the expansion plan, Tri-State is
significantly beefing up its transmission lines from eastern
Colorado and western Kansas to the Colorado Front Range cities of
Denver and Colorado Springs. Company representatives told CRES at
Governor Ritter’s signing ceremony on March 27 that these lines will
run right through the heart of the state’s “wind country” and will
position Tri-State to acquire significant wind generating capacity
in the future.
For more information, see an article in the April 5
edition of the Denver Business Journal titled “Tri-State Postpones
Power Plant.”
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2007/04/02/daily55.html?surround=lfn
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