Tom Sweeney, CEO of Clean Energy Collective, walks beside the newly completed community solar array in unincorporated Boulder County on Friday. Clean Energy Collective, a Carbondale-based company, is developing 11 Xcel Energy solar gardens. (Andy Cross, The Denver Post) From the roof of a one-time Air Force hangar in Denver's Lowry neighborhood to a lot at the edge of Breckenridge, large, community solar-power arrays are popping up across Colorado. Spurred by a pilot program by Xcel Energy, the state's largest electricity provider, 22 "solar gardens" are being built from Aurora to Grand Junction, with more to come. "Colorado has become a solar-garden hot spot," said David Amster-Olszewski,...
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