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Tri-State to Acquire 50-MW of Renewable Energy
July 25, 2007
Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association, Inc.
will seek proposals for about 50 megawatts (MW) of generating
capacity from renewable energy resources later in the year. This
will be the first major acquisition of new renewable energy
resources for Tri-State and represents a turn-around from the
company’s stance of several years ago toward renewable energy.
Tri-State Executive Vice President J.M. Shafer made
the announcement Wednesday at company headquarters in Westminster.
Shafer said the company is responding to requests from its member
cooperatives in Colorado and New Mexico to add renewable resources
to its system.
As part of the announcement, Tri-State is seeking
proposals immediately for 250 MW of combined cycle natural gas
generation in eastern Colorado. The natural gas and renewable energy
installations will increase the company’s total generating capacity
by 10%. For details, see the Tri-State July 18 press release
http://www.tristategt.org/NewsCenter/NewsItems/RFPs.cfm
Or read an article in the July 19 edition of the
Denver Post titled “Tri-State Turns to Renewable Energy.”
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_6408196
Tri-State supplies electricity to 44 member rural
electric cooperatives in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and
Nebraska, and its service territory lies in the heart of U.S. wind
energy resources on the Great Plains. The company is the second
largest electric power producer in the state.
Last month, Tri-State Director Public Relations
Manager Lee Boughey discussed the wind energy potential in areas
served by Tri-State member rural electric associations at the 2007
Colorado Renewable Energy Conference in Steamboat Springs. He noted
the company has begun transmission construction project that would
bring both coal-fired and wind-generated electricity from eastern
Colorado to cities on the Colorado Front Range. You can read about
the Eastern Plains Transmission Project on the Tri-State website at:
http://www.tristategt.org/RP/Transmission.cfm. |
