The Pueblo Chieftain file Xcel Energy’s Comanche coal-fired power plant, just southeast of Pueblo, has been a source of costly problems for the utility and its customers. Xcel Energy has petitioned ...

State regulators approved a plan to keep the 50-year-old turbine operating through 2026 at Comanche Generating Station, a major climate polluter.

That bleeding has been costly. A 2021 report by the Public Utilities Commission staff found Comanche 3, instead of delivering ...

A few years ago, Colorado was triumphantly easing out of coal generation in orderly fashion. The narrative has shifted, this ...

Pueblo County officials are considering asking the Trump administration to keep two local coal plants from closing. The county's filing with the state claims it is being treated unfairly in the ...

U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd has asked the U.S. Department of Energy to prevent the 2025 closure of the Comanche Unit 2 coal plant. In a conversation with the Chieftain, Hurd cited concerns about potential ...

State utility regulators will allow Xcel Energy to keep the Comanche 2 coal-fired power plant in Pueblo open until Dec. 2026, extending a state deadline that would have shuttered the plant in a few ...

The Pueblo Chieftain file Xcel Energy’s Comanche coal-fired power plant, just southeast of Pueblo, has been a source of costly problems for the utility and its customers. Colorado’s largest utility ...

President Donald Trump's administration has issued emergency orders to continue the operation of power plants before — could two Pueblo County coal plants be next? A nine-page filing shared on behalf ...

In August 2010, I traveled to Pueblo for a tour of Comanche 3. The coal unit, Colorado’s largest, with 750 megawatts of generating capacity, had begun producing electricity a few weeks before. “The ...

In August 2010, I traveled to Pueblo for a tour of Comanche 3. The coal unit, Colorado’s largest, with 750 megawatts of generating capacity, had begun producing electricity a few weeks before. “The ...