Crews brave “crazy weather” to carry out successful implosion.
Yesterday morning Xcel Energy crews took down a very familiar landmark in Cameo: the old power plant that was shut down.
Implosion took place at 7 Wednesday morning and wrapped up by 7:30 after Xcel crews and demolition specialist sent the stacks up in smoke.
After upgrading the plant to solar power panels, the plant was deactivated in December of 2011. Ultimately though, Xcel officials say the plant was outdated and didn’t keep up with newer plants.
“We built Comanche three, which is a 1000 megawatt coal plant down in Pueblo, and so when that was built, it made this power plant obsolete because of old technologies and efficiencies”, said Fred Eggleston of Xcel Energy.
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