In the past 10 years, 13 coal power plant units in Colorado have shut down. There are four plants still operating: Xcel Energy’s Pawnee in Brush and Comanche 3 in Pueblo, Platte River Power Authority’s Rawhide 1 near Wellington, and Colorado Springs Utilities’ Ray D. Nixon unit 1 south of the city.
Large electricity generators use lots of water to cool their coal-fired plants. And with the closing of coal-fired plants, expect to see battles heat up over how the massive amounts of water can be repurposed, reported The Colorado Sun.
Legislators are sufficiently concerned about speculators making money on Colorado’s water shortage that in March they passed Senate Bill 48 asking water officials to give them suggestion
