Xcel Energy

Xcel Energy Inc. (NYSE:XEL) officials said Tuesday, October 18, that its Boulder, Colorado subscribers could lose access to the utility’s solar rebates and energy efficiency programs if certain ballot measures regarding forming a new city utility pass.

Boulder County, Colorado, now has hope for re-establishing its residential ClimateSmart Program, thanks to a recent decision in the Northern District Court of California and an amendment recently introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Supreme Court has ruled against against a lawsuit (Connecticut v. American Electric Power [pdf]) which would have given a handful of states the ability to sue private utilities for the greenhouse gas emissions they produce.

Utility-scale wind power developer Juhl Wind Inc. announced that its Danielson Wind Power plant is now online.

On February 17, 2011 Xcel Energy, Inc. (NYSE: XEL), Colorado’s largest investor-owned utility, announced that it was suspending the solar energy incentive application process and cutting the associated rebate.

Minnesota winters are legendary, but BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) Greater Minneapolis and regional utility, Xcel Energy are working together to create energy-efficient commercial buildings that improve building temperatures and energy availability for residential use.

For a decade, increasingly strict environmental regulations surrounding coal-fired power plants, and the threat of carbon taxes still to come, have signaled the potential end of an energy paradigm that first took root in the United States in the

In this third part of my Q&A with AWEA's executive director Denise Bode, we discuss industry expansion and environmental problems.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in partnership with Xcel Energy, has launched a wind-to-hydrogen (Wind2H2) demonstration project at the National Wind Technology Center in Boulder, Colorado.