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It´s being developed with help from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and electricity and natural gas giant Xcel Energy.

这个项目得到美国国家科学基金会，能源部，电力和天然气巨头Xcel公司的联合资助。

It calls for Xcel Energy to close four coal-fired units in the region, switch another to natural gas and build a gas-fired plant to help meet federal clean-air standards.

要求埃克·西尔能源公司关掉这个地区的四个燃煤发电机组，把另一个燃煤机组更换为燃气机组，并新建一个燃气发电厂，以符合联邦的清洁能源标准。

In Boulder, Colorado, the showcase for smart grids, customers of Xcel Energy, the local utility, are becoming increasingly cross because they will have to pay much of the project´s costs.

在科罗拉多州的博尔德就能发现关于智能电网的例证：本地电力机构Xcel能源公司的顾客越来越愤怒起来，因为他们需要向该公司支付大多数项目的成本费。