{"id":4,"date":"2008-01-16T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T19:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/?p=4"},"modified":"2008-01-16T11:37:17","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T19:37:17","slug":"xcel-energy-seeks-bids-for-solar-energy-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/xcel-energy-seeks-bids-for-solar-energy-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Xcel Energy Seeks Bids For Solar Energy Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/cbs4denver.com\/business\/xcel.denver.solar.2.630729.html\">http:\/\/cbs4denver.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>            DENVER (AP) \u2014Xcel Energy is seeking bids for on-site solar power projects totaling up to 5 megawatts of electricity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy, Colorado&#8217;s largest electric utility, said Tuesday that it is expanding its solar power program. A state law requires most utilities to get 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2020, with 4 percent of that coming from solar energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">&quot;It is becoming increasingly important for us to leverage customer-owned solar power facilities as we grow our Solar Rewards program to meet Colorado&#8217;s renewable energy standard,&quot; said Fred Stoffel, vice president of marketing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Xcel Energy will award the winning bidders a 20-year contract to sell the renewable energy credits from the projects to Xcel Energy. The company will also pay customers a rebate of $2 per watt for the first 100 kilowatts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">An 8.22-megawatt photovoltaic solar plant built and operated by SunEdison near Alamosa is selling renewable energy credits and the solar power generated for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">One megawatt serves roughly 1,000 homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: http:\/\/cbs4denver.com DENVER (AP) \u2014Xcel Energy is seeking bids for on-site solar power projects totaling up to 5 megawatts of electricity. Minneapolis-based Xcel Energy, Colorado&#8217;s largest electric utility, said Tuesday that it is expanding its solar power program. A state law requires most utilities to get 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ijdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}