Xcel’s all-electric bucket truck
Xcel Energy has its first all-electric bucket truck in Colorado. Other electric fleet vehicles will soon follow.
EVs now across Colorado
From Cheyenne Wells to Dolores, even the smallest places have EVs. Boulder nad Pitkin counties predictably lead in per-capita EV ownership.
Finding partners for solar + storage
Holy Cross Energy’s solar + storage project near Glenwood Springs reflects partnerships and synergies. Can it find other such projects in the Aspen-Vail-Rifle area?
Questions about Colorado’s second largest utility
Tri-State Generation and Transmission has moved briskly in recent years, but is it moving fast enough to hang onto its members?
A biggest ever in Colorado for battery storage
Tiny now, like a pebble, lithium-ion battery storage in Colorado will soon be like a boulder. What else is needed to complete this emissions-free jigsaw puzzle?
Cleansing the dirty linen in our geographic drawer
Evans will almost certainly be replaced as the name for Colorado’s 14th highest mountain. But what about Byers and other names associated with an ugly massacre?
Pick your Colorado River metaphor
The river is in deep doo-doo, and worse may very well come. So why such a sluggish reaction?
Worsening hydrology tilts RTO benefits
A new study finds even greater benefits to many Colorado electrical utilities froma regional alignment due to declining electrical production from dams.
Betting on green hydrogen answers in Colorado
A billionaire industrialist from Australia ays he will invest money in Colorado in search of ways to commercialize green hydrogen. State officials say this “further cements Colorado as a frontrunner in clean energy technology.”
Also new in hydrogen
Former New Mexico mine site in running for green hydrogen study; Princeton’s Jessie Jenkins on green hydrogen and other energy pathways; and Wyoming, too.
Net-zero Geos housing part of international tour
The housing project in a Denver suburb struggled at first but now draws many visitors from Colorado, curious about the net zero energy techniques. Recently it drew visitors from the other side of the world.,
What Colorado’s legislators are saying
Colo. State Rep. Tracey Bernett says indoor gas stoves will soon be seen the way lead paint is now. State Sen. Chris Hansen talks about agrivoltaics.
