Fort St. Vrain power plant
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Weld County’s largest power plant to get bigger

The Weld County Board of County Commissioners recently approved Public Service Company of Colorado’s (Xcel Energy) request to build two new natural-gas fired combustion turbines and its associated facilities. The two combined will add an additional 364 megawatts of power-generation capacity, which would at most be enough to provide power to 364,000 homes.

Snow Owl 3 Rendering
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New building planned for Greeley’s High Pointe Industrial Park

The High Pointe Business Park in west Greeley is about to see some new life at the tail end. Roche Constructors Inc., which owns the business park at Colorado Highway 257 and U.S. Highway 34 through its Golden Eye Investments Inc., has proposed building a 31,000-square-foot industrial building at the park, in a project called Snow Owl 3.