Round-Up: Tri-State purchases CO wind power; Fort Lyons prison closes

By On March 1, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Andrea Chalfin, AP, Budget, Business, Economy, Elizabeth Schoder, Energy, KRCC News, Prisons, Round-Up, Student Reporter

Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association has signed a 20-year power purchase agreement to buy electricity from a 67-megawatt wind project planned in northeast Colorado…The Fort Lyons medium-security prison is now closed, the Chieftain reports.

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