News Source: The Denver Post
| 9 months ago
You do need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows...With a growing portfoilo of wind energy — now 14 percent of all its Colorado power and 12 percent companywide — the utility is seeking a better forecast of how much power its turbines...
News Source: Uinta County News
| 9 months ago
Portland, Maine (Platts)--4Feb2009 The National Center for Atmospheric Research said Wednesday it has agreed to provide Xcel Energy with detailed, localized weather forecasts that would enable the utility to better integrate wind-generated...
News Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News
| 9 months ago
All that ferocious Colorado winter wind won't go to waste — or to Kansas — under a new strategy to harness it and put it on the power grid. The goal is to forecast the local weather so well that Xcel Energy knows exactly when to turn down the...
News Source: Belleville News-Democrat
| 9 months ago
Running coal and natural-gas plants just in case the wind doesn't produce enough power wastes money and releases damaging carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, he said. Boulder, Colo., has access to data the National Weather Service doesn't, so it can...