Tag: Electrical Grid
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Colorado PUC investigates intentional power shutdown, aims to protect customers
When Xcel Energy decided to cut power to customers earlier this month, more than 168,000 people across nine front range counties endured traffic havoc when signals went down, sent to waste untold amounts of refrigerated goods and scaring medical patients who needed that power. Officials intentionally shut down some 600 miles of power lines to…
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Power to the people: Ukrainian refugee in Colorado takes it to Putin with grassroots effort
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Yana Malik has started a grass roots effort from the basement of her host family home in Colorado Springs last month, already raising $80,000 for generators, heaters and magnetic lamps to keep the people of her home town, Luhansk, from freezing and starving to death. …
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Rushed transition to renewable energy could cost lives, critics say
Achieving Gov. Jared Polis’ 100% renewable energy goal by 2035 is technologically impossible – at least for now – and could cost people their lives, critics of Colorado’s transition away from fossil fuel toward toward renewable energy said at a recent forum. They pointed to the experience of California, which suffered a widespread rolling blackout in…
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Lockheed Martin gets contract to build long-lasting battery storage system at Fort Carson
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to build a long-duration battery power storage system at Fort Carson near Colorado Springs to increase the amount of time the base can operate during a power failure and improve the base’s resiliency and independence…