Tri-State’s latest credit slip
Wall Street sees clouded uncertainty for Colorado’s second largest electrical utility, but a bright future for another Colorado cooperative.
The latest in Boulder’s climate lawsuit
Climate lawsuit by three Colorado jurisdictions against Suncor and ExxonMobil stays in a Colorado court. No trial date set.
What difference will this new Colorado PUC director make?
Two former chair of the Colorado PUC say who is running the show behind the scenes can matter greatly in this giant pivot of energy systems
Pumped-storage hydro in Colorado
Renewables need storage, and pumped-storage hydro provides it. Will these projects help Colorado achieve its decarbonization goals?
Will nuclear energy arrive on time and at cost?
No doubt, nuclear energy has key advantages. So why isn’t it likely to be the silver bullet that some people in Craig and Pueblo crave?
Buzz-over country in northwest Colorado
Transmission lines carrying massive amounts of wind-generated electricity from Wyoming will cross Colorado like 8 and 12-lane interstate highways with no exits or on-ramps. Why is that?
Tri-State and the big bad wolf
Member cooperatives are tempted to hop the fence to graze on greener renewable energy. Chief executive Duane Highley warns his flock about a big, bad wolf called resource adequacy. Can he keep them in his fold?
At United Power, talk of hyper-localization
CEO of electric cooperative dismisses “doom and gloom.” But he does outline a future after Tri-State that will be more complex.
Federal help for Tri-State’s stranded assets?
Wholesaler has coal-burning units in Colorado, Wyoming. and Arizona —and mounds of debt. How much can the Inflation Reduction Act help?
Phase out oil and gas leasing in Colorado?
Colorado 350 has set out to ask Colorado voters in 2024 to phase out new oil and gas leasing before 2031. Why so soon?
A gigawatt of solar in Colorado’s wheat country
Major farmland owner sees huge upside to its investment in dryland farming country along Xcel Energy’s planned transmission line
Ruckus about Holy Cross solar rates
Electrical cooperative says new rates needed to help sustain electrical grid as it nears 100% carbon free energy. Solar installers see it very differently.
