A $1.6 million solar energy project trumped jobs Wednesday in a 5-3 vote by the Colorado Springs Utilities board that could result in lost jobs. The Clear Spring Ranch solar array, which is to produce 10 megawatts of energy, will get triple renewable energy credits (RECs), but it also will cost about three times the energy produced at the Martin Drake Power Plant. And it likely will cost Utilities 50 jobs, warned board member Don Knight, a city councilman who heads the council's Finance Committee. "This contract is wrong on so many accounts," Knight told the board, which consists of the council's nine members. "This did not come through the Finance Committee, and that is money that has to be...
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