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The Park: Power & Connectivity
Price and Availability of Power
Fort Collins provides very low-cost, reliable electricity to the business community in the city. The electric utility is 100 percent citizen-owned and entirely debt-free. The electric rates are among the most competitive in the country.
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The electric supplier is City of Fort Collins – Utilities
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The project site is approximately one mile east of the Utility’s Harmony Substation (Stn.500)
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This substation currently has four power transformers with a total capacity of 225 MW
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This substation is loop-fed by the 230 kV bulk transmission line owned by Platte River Power Authority
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The primary distribution voltage is 13.2Y/7.62 KV 3Ø
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The ductbank connecting Harmony Substation to the corner of Ziegler Road and Harmony Road can accommodate up to an additional 170 MW of load
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Providing two separate services from two different substation transformers is possible
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The distribution network is 99% underground
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Connectivity
Fort Collins and the Harmony Technology Park offer superb connectivity with the access to telecom infrastructure from multiple providers (Level 3, Qwest, and Platte River Power Authority). At this site the providers offer physical diversity of their fiber as well as access to regional rings, and direct access to the gateway. Additionally this site offers the ability to have a direct on-net connection providing the following benefits:
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Immediate and direct access to backbone network, now covering over 77,000 route miles of fiber
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Access to Level 3’s or Qwest’s IP backbone: the largest Internet backbone in North America and Europe with over 6.1 petabytes of traffic carried every day
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Access to one of the largest CLEC networks in the U.S., with now 5,700 buildings on-net, connected with over 21,000 metro fiber miles
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Access to the newest nationwide fiber infrastructure available
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Physically diverse paths from on-net building to Level 3 Gateway
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