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Xcel Energy may fill the hole left by closing its Hayden coal-fired power plant with salt. And fish.
Molten salt energy storage was originally developed for use at solar power plants but ‘new players are looking to use the grid’ to heat the salt. Xcel Energy wants to use the technology to replace coal in Colorado. Will the utility’s plan become a template for other coal-reliant communities? What lessons have they learned from the community advisory committee that meets monthly with utility executives to discuss life after coal?
Xcel Energy may fill the hole left by closing its Hayden coal-fired power plant with salt. And fish.
Xcel Energy has big pollution reduction goals to meet and has offered power generated using molten salt as a clean alternative to coal.
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