Will El Niño ride to the Colorado River’s rescue?
Maybe but don’t count on it. But have you heard the latest on the Pacific Decadal Oscillation? Not good!
Xcel Energy’s worries about short-term resource adequacy
Why the company wants to spend $77 million-plus to shore up generating capacity during for 2027 and 2028
A doctor, the data & Colorado’s White River
The river carried peaked early this year and with little water, part of a clear pattern during the past 25 years documented by Bob Dorsett.
Closer to the ending than the beginning
The Colorado and the Republican rivers differ greatly in fundamental ways but they share a critical challenge. More conservation will be crucial. It needs to happen very quickly.
Xcel takes it on the chin in public comments
Two speakers, one from Minturn and the other from Boulder, have hard things to say about monopoly utilities
A more appropriate geography for Mike Kruger
States and provinces in the Western electric grid have many common challenges. Can the Institute for Western Energy that he will oversee help them formulate solutions?
Elbert County asking court to block Xcel’s transmission line
Says PUC approval of 48 miles of transmission line was ignored, disregarded and determined to be insignificant local input
Behind-the-curtain politics of a Colorado River conference
Doug Kenney, principal organizer of annual gathering in Boulder, talks about how the growing tensions among basin states pose challenges in setting the agenda
Along the Elk River, earlier springs and more uncertainty
Jay Fetcher faithfully records the date the last snow disappears from the ranch meadow. This year was the earliest by a matter of weeks.
100% for Holy Cross during March
Colorado electrical cooperative has delivered 92% emissions-free energy this year through April to members in its Vail-Aspen-Parachute service area
The Colorado River and reckoning time for the Front Range
Dissonance exists between life-close-to-normal policies regarding urban water use and the growing crisis on the river
Phil Weiser on climate change
Colorado gubernatorial candidate has few specifics but speaks broadly of himself as a convener of talent in helping find solutions
