What were these ‘nays’ really about?
Hmmm. What was that about? A legislative committee hearing about renewing the Office of Consumer Counsel fractured along party lines. The reason was unclear.
How a warming climate has crimped flows in Colorado’s Yampa River
Colorado’s Yampa River was long an exception, a major river mostly without restriction on supplies. Every straw was welcome and satisfied. That’s changing.
Battery storage next at Hayden?
Xcel Energy says it won’t leave workers or taxing districts stranded once its coal-burning units close at Craig. Battery storage? That’s one of the options.
How this small Colorado mountain town got an electric school bus
The Colorado mountain town of Kremmling still gets cold enough that school officials wondered whether an electric bus would work. They’ve quit wondering.
Colorado’s debate about natural gas
For now, Colorado will be more like California than Arizona in allowing towns, cities and counties to limit extension of natural gas to new buildings. But the talking points at a recent legislative committee were revealing.
How can Steven Chu be hopeful?
Climate change has already made this world warmer and wackier. So why does this Nobel Prize-winner still find reason to laugh?
Why Colorado could be a model for decarbonization
Eric Blank of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission details the strengths that Colorado has that could make it a model for decarbonization.
Colorado’s last standing coal plant?
What will be Colorado’s last standing coal plant? Xcel Energy wants it to be Comanche 3. Can the company persuade state regulators it should operate to 2040?
Xcel’s plan for $1.7 billion in transmission in eastern Colorado
Xcel Energy has plans for $1.7 billion to build 560 miles of new transmission to deliver renewable electricity from eastern Colorado to the Front Range by 2027.
Xcel Energy stands by Comanche 3
Colorado’s newest coal plant has been a dog, but Xcel Energy says it should stay open until 2040, a crucial component of the company;’s decarbonization plan.
Sun rapidly sets on Colorado coal plants
The 2020s will be the decade of rapidly closing coal plants in Colorado. Utilities have plans for just one plant beyond 2030.
Questions in Colorado after the big chill
Colorado regulators are looking into what gas utilities should have known before the February chill that briefly sent natural gas prices shooting upward.
