More utility-scale battery storage in Colorado
Black Hills Energy plans 50 megawatts at Pueblo to allow it to store excess wind energy to help meet peak demands
A first in the 110-plus-year history of this canal
Farmers served by the Government Highline Canal as of today will get no water, a result of last winter’s dismal snowpack and low levels in Green Mountain Reservoir
Amid the y’alls, two themes at the Colorado Water Congress conference
Many political office-seekers spoke at the annual summer conference in Steamboat. Some ‘y’alled to the attendees. Others not so much. Most called for more water storage and “forest resilience.”
Another record for renewables in Colorado
Wind, solar and hydro delivered 56.1% of Colorado’s electricity in the second quarter of 2026
Green Mountain 15.9% full
Reservoir on the Blue River in western Colorado started the runoff with the lowest water level since it began filling in the 1940s. Now, it’s even lower.
Lawn watering ends Oct. 1 in metro Denver
Temperatures 5 degrees above average. Precipitation 4 inches below.
Rare optimism about the Colorado River
Brad Udall says the seven basin states have “blundered” their way into a situation that may produce better sharing of the diminished waters
A historian with a very long view
Jessica Tierney and other paleoclimatologists have a strong and growing grasp of temperature and hydrology shifts of the past. What can they tell us about our rapidly changing climate now?
Geothermal interest in southern Colorado
State Land Board issues request for proposals in five counties, three of them in the San Luis Valley
Colorado has new leader for carbon management
Jennifer Walker Graf to lead commission charged with overseeing geothermal and carbon capture as well as more traditional oil and gas regulation
Why Colorado has lost federal funding
States with two Democratic senators lost money in nearly every case. Casualties were two very Republican areas of Colorado.
In 2002, we had Colorado River water cushions. Now they’re gone.
“We know climate change is real. We know we’re living it, but no one expected it to move this quickly.”
