Colorado Integrated Solar Project

Xcel Energy’s first Innovative Clean Technology project is a concentrating solar plant integrated with a conventional coal-fired power plant. Located at our Cameo Generating Station near Palisade, Colo., the project is the world’s first known demonstration of the hybrid solar-coal approach using parabolic-trough solar technology. The system is concentrating solar energy that provides heat to produce supplemental steam for power generation at Cameo Station's Unit 2 and promises to:

• decrease the overall consumption of coal,
• reduce emissions from the plant,
• improve plant efficiency,
• test commercial viability of concentrating solar integration, and
• increase the opportunity for cost-effective renewable power generation.

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