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Thursday, February 04, 2010  James Tarpey, one of three public utilities commissioners, said Thursday that he would excuse himself from deciding the application from Xcel Energy and Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association.

Thursday, January 28, 2010  The billionaire owner of a south-central Colorado ranch who objects to a proposed power line crossing his land says the utilities behind the project have illegally met separately with state regulators who will decide whether to approve it.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009  The company, based in the Denver suburb of Westminster, serves 44 electric cooperatives in Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming. The cooperatives in turn provide power for a total of about 1.4 million people in those four states.

Thursday, July 16, 2009  The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is holding a hearing starting at 1:30 p.m. Thursday on whether the state should require Tri-State to submit it resource plans to the state.

Monday, July 06, 2009  The wind farm will be built by Duke Energy of Charlotte, N.C. Duke says the project will have 34 turbines on 6,000 acres near Burlington, about 150 miles east of Denver. It's expected to be completed by the end of next year.