Advancing data to better manage Western water
Experts advise governors on how artificial intelligence and other tools can allow water in Colorado River Basin and elsewhere to be better managed
Two big new-energy factories along I-76. The takeaways?
Colorado has rapidly been adding clean-energy sector jobs. That includes in Pueblo. But will any end up in the coal capital of Craig?
Will Colorado’s Baca County get its wishes?
Solar and developers have arrived in southeast Colorado. But will the transmission get there to help this county transition from the agriculture supported by the Ogallala and other fast-diminishing aquifers?
Getting Holy Cross-wise over net metering
Lots of issues here: social equity, closing in on 100% renewables — and whether rates adopted by Colorado’s forward-looking utility would break state law. Will that law be changed?
Colorado’s newest biggest battery
And Xcel Energy will add more from planning begun in 2016 — with much more coming beyond this wave.
A pause —and now a sharp rise for Tr-State rates
Wholesale provider’s last rate hike was in 2017. Rates actually declined in 2021. They will rise again in 2024.
A sign of what’s at stake in the Colorado River
Becky Mitchell has first-ever assignment to represent Colorado full time in body of upper-basin states of Colorado River Basin
Tribal voices at the Colorado River table
Native Americans were not invited to craft the Colorado River Compact in 1922. Now they are at the table — and insist they must be part of solutions.
United Power’s plan for after Tri-State G&T
Colorado’s second largest electrical cooperative has contracted with The Energy Authority to manage electrical supplies beginning in 2024
Colorado’s updated climate projections
How will Colorado’s climate change in the next 30 or so years? Hotter, yes. Definitely. Precipitation? That’s a fuzzier picture.
A heck of a time for a drought conference
Like hard rains amid the Dust Bowl, Colorado has lots of water almost everywhere. That’s exactly the time to talk about what do as hotter and drier inevitably return.
Trustafarians on the Colorado River
In Denver, before a friendly crowd, a scathing description of the upper basin vs. the lower basin. Guess who was compared to ski town trustafarians?
