Tri-State Generation and Transmission

A volunteer advisory group told the utility that serves Colorado’s second-largest city that it should look at adding a small nuclear reactor for additional power generation.

Colorado electric cooperative Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association is proposing aid to coal communities in its service territory as part of an unopposed comprehensive settlement of the first phase of  the group’s recent Electric Resource Plan (ERP). The company on June 27 said the filing is an important milestone in the energy transition of the […]

Colorado-based cooperative Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association will accelerate the closure of a coal-fired unit in the northwestern part of the state, and also announced a retirement date for an Arizona coal plant, as part of the utility’s latest electric resource plan (ERP). Tri-State on Dec. 1 also said it wants to acquire at least […]

(December 16, 2022 – Westminster, Colo.) The board of directors of not-for-profit wholesale power supply cooperative Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association have approved the return of $10 million in patronage capital refunds to its members for 2022. Patronage capital represents each member’s equity in Tri-State and is an accumulation over the years of the net […]

It’s kind of exciting to be able to write that events are back in full swing. In case you missed it, POWER hosted the co-located Experience POWER, Distributed Energy Conference, and HydrogeNext events, Oct

WESTMINSTER, CO (Sept. 21, 2022) — Expanding the Southwest Power Pool Regional Transmission Organization into the Western Interconnection could produce a net total of $55 million to $73 million per year in savings depending on hydrologic conditions, according to a new Brattle study commissioned by prospective SPP RTO participants in the Western Interconnection. The 2022 […]

Westminster, CO (July 26, 2022) – Wholesale power supply cooperative Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association filed a multiple-party settlement on July 22 with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) that, if approved, would result in the retirement of Rifle Station on or about Oct. 6, 2022. The unanimous settlement to close the combined-cycle natural gas […]

Westminster, CO (May 23, 2022) — In another significant step forward to achieve the flexibility goals in Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association’s transformative Responsible Energy Plan, an additional three utility members will pursue an alternative membership option with the wholesale power supply cooperative. A total of six utility members have been allocated an aggregate of […]

Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, a wholesale power supply cooperative with 45 members in four states—Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Wyoming—announced its intentions to retire the Rifle Station, an 85-MW combined cycle facility in Rifle, Colorado. The announcement was made on April 5 in conjunction with a filing with the Colorado Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). […]

WESTMINSTER, CO (August 3, 2021) – On August 2, 2021, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved a settlement in the first major rate case filed by Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association since the power supplier became subject to FERC jurisdiction in September 2019. The landmark uncontested settlement resolves key issues from regulatory filings that Tri-State […]