Drake fight vs. business reality
As you’ve likely read elsewhere in this issue, starting on the front page, the controversy surrounding Martin Drake Power Plant and Colorado Springs Utilities simply won’t go away. The challenges to Neumann Systems Group’s innovative coal-scrubbing technology — and the unlikely bedfellows created as a result — have become increasingly difficult to follow, much less [...]
For more than a year, local leaders have questioned Colorado Springs Utilities’ decision to install NeuStream, a locally invented, designed and produced coal scrubber that inventors say could revolutionize the clean-coal industry — and help aging power plants comply with regional and federal air-quality standards. Detractors have been both skeptical and vocal. It doesn’t work; [...]
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Neumann Systems Group insists rising criticisms are unwarranted It seemed like a good idea at the time. Dave Neumann, a defense contractor with a proven track record, approached Colorado Springs Utilities in 2007 with a pilot project: a clean-coal scrubber using innovative technology that would require less water than dry scrubbers , less space and [...]
Continue reading …The Sierra Club fired another volley at Colorado Springs Utilities this week, releasing an independent study modeling sulfur dioxide pollution from the downtown, coal-fired Martin Drake Power Plant. The study, performed by Wingra Engineering of Madison, Wis., purportedly shows that the Drake plant “will likely trigger violations of federal air rules even after current and [...]
Continue reading …By Amy Gillentine and John Hazlehurst For decades, the steam from the Martin Drake Power Plant has dominated the Colorado Springs skyline. It’s so much a part of the city’s landscape, it’s hard to imagine a time when vast clouds of steam wouldn’t envelop downtown. Those clouds are both literal and metaphorical, because the [...]
Continue reading …In the midst of a study about the future of coal-fired Drake Power Plant, Mayor Steve Bach’s goal of adding 6,000 jobs a year and ongoing chatter about how Colorado Springs Utilities is governed, no one is talking much about renewable energy. At least, no one seems to be talking much about it. Colorado ranks [...]
Continue reading …It’s been a tough week for Colorado Springs Utilities.
Continue reading …The Colorado Springs City Council has not yet set a date for a special meeting about the future of the Martin Drake Power Plant. Council President Pro Tem Jan Martin confirmed the fact, despite reports earlier that it was slated for 1 p.m. Sept. 26 in Council chambers. “I believe that’s Yom Kippur,” she said. [...]
Continue reading …The Colorado Springs Chamber/EDC has become the latest group to weigh in on the issues of decommissioning the Martin Drake Power Plant and the governance and ownership of the Colorado Springs Utilities. “They’re just the latest,” said Councilor Tim Leigh, who also sits on the Utilities board. “The RLF (Regional Leadership Forum) is interested in [...]
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