The Amalia facility will be the second-largest solar installation for KCEC, expanding the Cooperative’s local solar power generation capacity to approximately 50 MW.
Luis Reyes Jr., CEO of Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, is spearheading a groundbreaking green hydrogen project in northern New Mexico, aiming to utilize the now-closed molybdenum mine in Questa. With the help of a $96.5 million federal grant, Reyes plans to build a green hydrogen facility that will use renewable electricity to power an electrolyzer, producing hydrogen from water extracted from the abandoned mine.
United Power announced today that it is a finalist for the Empowering Rural America (New ERA) Program through the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service. The New ERA investment will be used to offset the cost of United Power’s transition to a strategic portfolio of clean energy that includes power purchase agreements that will provide more than 760 megawatts of renewable resources to its members by 2030.
July 23 was a milestone day for Garnet Mesa Solar in Delta CO! Partners from DMEA, Alluvial Power and Guzman Energy joined with the Delta county commissioners and community to recognize the groundbreaking of the 80MW agrivoltaic solar project coming online in 2025. A great day for DMEA’s focus to provide safe, reliable and affordable power supply in partnership with Guzman Energy!
Granby-based Mountain Parks Electric has committed to a 20-year wholesale power and energy-management services contract with Denver-based Guzman Energy. The contract begins Feb. 1, 2025, when Mountain Parks leaves Tri-State Generation and Transmission.
Kit Carson’s separation from Tri-State, which took nearly a decade, was driven by the persistence of its members.
Colorado-based wholesale power supplier to provide exit fees to 42 member electric associations.
FERC issued an order ending a couple years of litigation over what Tri-State can charge its exiting members, picking a “Balance Sheet Approach” initially proposed by departing member United Power and then modified by commission staff.
KCEC partners with Guzman Energy for wholesale power and energy management services that emphasize resilient, local distributed power and storage.
The Angel Fire Solar Project, with its 7.5 MW solar PV capacity and an impressive Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) boasting 3.75 MW (7.5 MWh), is now operational.
Change is afoot on the wholesale power scene in Colorado. Mark Jaffe with The Colorado Sun unpacks the story. Guzman Energy is noted for being “the go to” wholesale supplier for fixed price contracts.
Guzman Energy customer Luis A. Reyes Jr. of KCEC shares an opinion letter about locally controlled energy with Utility Dive.