Colorado’s windy plains generated records for electricity production in January, Xcel Energy Inc. said Monday.
About 1 a.m. on Jan. 16, Xcel’s Colorado system carried a record total of 1,960 megawatts of wind power for an hour, enough to support the demands of about 490,000 homes. The wind power accounted for 51 percent of all the electricity Xcel was carrying on its system at that time, said Mark Stutz, spokesman for Xcel (NYSE: XEL).
Xcel set a nationwide record in April 2012 when wind power…
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