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ASPEN – — A coal mine near Somerset could play an unlikely role in helping an energy cooperative in the Roaring Fork Valley reach its goal of providing 20 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2015.
Holy Cross Energy has signed a contract to buy power from a plant that Vessels Coal Gas Inc. will build to produce power using methane released from the Elk Creek Mine, according to Del Worley, CEO of Holy Cross. If all goes as planned, the plant will be operating by late summer or early fall, he said.
Vessels Coal Gas will capture methane that must be released for worker safety from a coal mine owned by William Koch’s Oxbow Carbon, according to Randy Udall, an energy expert and consultant for Holy Cross.
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