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Colorado Electric Cooperative Nears 90% Clean Energy Target with New Projects

Holy Cross Energy (HCE), a Colorado electric cooperative, is progressing toward its goal of achieving over 90% clean energy by 2025 and ultimately reaching 100% clean energy by 2030. Recent additions, like the Bronco Plains II Energy Center wind facility and Hunter Solar project, are bringing HCE closer to these targets, with expected cost savings of over $40 million for members over...

DOE FINALIZES NEW STANDARD FOR DISTRIBUTION TRANSFORMERS

The Department of Energy has finalized new energy efficiency standards for distribution transformers, giving manufacturers more time for compliance to help keep the focus on increased output to meet electric cooperatives’ demand for transformers.

Basin Electric’s Dry Fork Station Receives DOE Funding for Carbon Capture Study

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations awarded $4.6 million in funding to Membrane Technology Research and Carbon Capture to develop a design study for an integrated carbon capture and storage project at Basin Electric Power Cooperative’s Dry Fork Station in Wyoming. The project aims to capture, compress and store onsite 3 million tons of CO2 per year,...

Flathead Cooperative plans Solar Project with Whitefish

Flathead Electric Cooperative will begin construction on its third community solar project, developed in partnership with Whitefish City this summer. The cooperative received a grant of near $500,000 from the Department of Agriculture to help fund the project.