Comanche Solar Coal
Channel: United States Photo Chief
Date: 11/12/2018

Colorado currently has a mandate stating utilities must deliver 30% of their energy from renewables by 2020. The state was the first to enact the law—commonly called a Renewable Portfolio Standard, or RPS—through a ballot initiative.
The Comanche Generating Station is Colorado's largest coal-fired power plant.
Comanche Solar is Colorado's largest solar farm with 450,000 panels across 900 acres delivering 156 megawatts of energy; the biggest solar farm east of the Rocky Mountains.
Much of the future growth in solar panels in the U.S. will also come from installing them on rooftops for home-owners and businesses. In the first quarter of this year, there was more energy from residential solar panels installed than energy from natural gas power plants built. Three million new home rooftop solar installations could be built in the U.S. over the next five years, a number that would dwarf even the biggest solar farm.

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