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EXCEL Wants To Charge Colorado Solar Customers New Fee
"Xcel Energy Inc. has asked regulators in Colorado for permission to charge residents who install solar-power systems a new fee. The Minneapolis-based utility, which is Colorado’s largest power provider, is arguing that solar customers should have to help cover the cost of maintaining electric grid infrastructure. For now, Colorado solar-power users pay meter and billing fees, but don’t pay the transmission-related fees that non-solar customers do. '[Solar] customers benefit from that grid by having the company as both a back up to their solar power system and a place to sell energy when they are not using it,' Xcel said in a statement on its Colorado Web site."
Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey Inks National Distribution Deal
"Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey has reached a distribution deal with national liquor distributor Republic National Distributing Co., effective Saturday. Denver-based Stranahan's previously was distributed by Baum Wine Imports for Colorado and by the distiller itself for other states."
Colorado Low-Income Housing Agency to Distribute 45M From Stimulus
"The Colorado Housing and Finance Authority said Thursday it is receiving $45.1 million through the federal economic stimulus program that will be used to build an estimated 1,800 low-cost rental housing units statewide. The funds from the federal departments of the Treasury and Housing and Urban Development will create nearly 750 jobs, CHFA said."
"The stimulus program — formally known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — created the Tax Credit Assistance Program and Tax Credit Exchange Program to boost housing for poor Americans; it is through those programs that CHFA is receiving the grant. CHFA said it will distribute the funds to eligible housing developers beginning in August."
The big question, of course, is will any Chaffee County developers go after some of that money in order to build low-income housing here.
"Xcel Energy Inc. has asked regulators in Colorado for permission to charge residents who install solar-power systems a new fee. The Minneapolis-based utility, which is Colorado’s largest power provider, is arguing that solar customers should have to help cover the cost of maintaining electric grid infrastructure. For now, Colorado solar-power users pay meter and billing fees, but don’t pay the transmission-related fees that non-solar customers do. '[Solar] customers benefit from that grid by having the company as both a back up to their solar power system and a place to sell energy when they are not using it,' Xcel said in a statement on its Colorado Web site."
Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey Inks National Distribution Deal
"Stranahan's Colorado Whiskey has reached a distribution deal with national liquor distributor Republic National Distributing Co., effective Saturday. Denver-based Stranahan's previously was distributed by Baum Wine Imports for Colorado and by the distiller itself for other states."
Colorado Low-Income Housing Agency to Distribute 45M From Stimulus
"The Colorado Housing and Finance Authority said Thursday it is receiving $45.1 million through the federal economic stimulus program that will be used to build an estimated 1,800 low-cost rental housing units statewide. The funds from the federal departments of the Treasury and Housing and Urban Development will create nearly 750 jobs, CHFA said."
"The stimulus program — formally known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act — created the Tax Credit Assistance Program and Tax Credit Exchange Program to boost housing for poor Americans; it is through those programs that CHFA is receiving the grant. CHFA said it will distribute the funds to eligible housing developers beginning in August."
The big question, of course, is will any Chaffee County developers go after some of that money in order to build low-income housing here.
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