Community solar garden gets first site 
by Amanda Miller Published: October 25,2011
Tags: land deal, Real Estate, solar, Utilities
The first community solar garden in Colorado Springs is set to break ground... [...]
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Community solar garden gets first site
Solar Garden founders to host Q&A happy hour at Sonterra Grill
by Amanda Miller Published: September 15,2011
Tags: Colorado Springs Utilities, happy hour, solar, solar garden, Utilities
A new solar company that aims to make solar available to the masses will host an informative question and answer session at Sonterra Grill, 28 S. Tejon St., this evening at 5:30 p.m. SunShare plans to build a community solar garden, which will allow people to lease for a 20-year term solar panels and get [...] [...]
Neumann Systems’ emissions tech awaits green light
Judgment day is fast approaching for Neumann Systems Group and its technology, which purports to clean sulfur dioxide emissions in coal-fired power plants. Next month, Colorado Springs Utilities will make a final recommendation — a “go or no go” — on whether to move forward with the technology, said Drew Rankin, general manager of energy [...] [...]
Utility rates could jump higher with Amend. 60
by John Hazlehurst Published: September 3,2010
Tags: Amendment 60, SDS, Utilities, water
Colorado voters this November will decide whether to approve Amendment 60, which would require Colorado Springs Utilities and other government-owned enterprises statewide to begin paying property taxes. That’s the intended aim of the initiative. The unintended consequence? While rolling back property taxes for homeowners, the amendment will at the same time force CSU to raise [...] [...]
Way outside the norm
by John Hazlehurst Published: March 20,2009
How many human resource employees does a local government, or a local government enterprise, need to function effectively? Judging by the dramatically different staffing levels of two H.R. departments supervised by the same set of elected officials, the answer to that question is not as straightforward as you might expect. The City of Colorado Springs, [...] [...]
CH2M Hill, CSU share national award
CH2M Hill and the City of Colorado Springs were awarded an Outstanding Achievement in Public/Private Partnerships Award for their work with Mayor Lionel Rivera and Colorado Springs Utilities. The award was given during yesterday’s meeting of the National Conference of Mayors in Las Vegas. The entities worked together on the Fountain Creek Recovery Project, an [...] [...]
Colorado Springs to appeal Pueblo water ruling
by Staff Writer Published: January 23,2008
Tags: Community, Ecology, Pueblo, Sustainability, Utilities
In this month’s Reed Construction Data report about the Rocky Mountain region, comes news that Colorado Springs Utilities is ready to appeal a November water line ruling of Pueblo District Court Judge Dennis Maes to the Colorado Court of Appeals. CSU plans to build a $1 billion pipeline to carry water from Pueblo Reservoir up [...] [...]
Springs among state’s biggest water savers
An independent policy group has given Colorado Springs high marks for its strides in water conservation. Springs’ single-family residential per capita water use decreased 32 percent since 2000, according to a report released this week from Western Resource Advocates. Per Capita Water Use Gallons per person per day in Colorado Springs 2000 2005 2006 [...] [...]
Green gas plant plans on hold
Xcel Energy Inc. will delay the construction of a Colorado state-of-the-art power plant that uses environmentally-friendly coal converted to gas technology to generate power. Xcel is the state’s largest utility provider, delivering electricity and natural gas to more than two-thirds of Colorado’s residents. Construction of a new “integrated gasification combined cycle,” power plant was anticipated [...] [...]
$9.3 million for state energy assistance this year
Energy Outreach Colorado plans to distribute $9.36 million statewide through its 2007-08 programs to help households afford home energy. The money which Energy Outreach raises through thousands of donations from individuals, foundations, corporations and government sources, includes: $5.4 million for energy assistance payments contributed to a statewide network of 100 assistance agencies that operate year [...] [...]
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