Colorado and the West have plenty of reasons to talk about both energy and water, but usually those conversations occur in separate rooms. An attempt to bring them together by historian Patty Limerick had much the same result, as she herself acknowledged.
Holy Cross Energy, an electrical cooperative serving the Vail and Aspen areas, has received national recognition for its innovations at Basalt Vista and other projects.
Southwest Energy Efficiency Project has put together a menu of options for local jurisdictions that want to begin decarbonizing the building sector.
After successes as a wind and then solar developer Eric Blank sees electrifying buildings as the next frontier. “It’s crazy to build 40,000 houses a year” in Colorado with natural gas infrastructure, he says.
Colorado’s Just Transition Advisory Committee draft plan calls for benefits for displaced workers as coal mines and plants in Colorado’s Yampa Valley, but it has no answers for the local school districts who will lose significant property tax assessments.
Colorado in 2019 adopted a law calling for a “just transition” for workers and communities impacted by the transition from coal. State officials heard testimony just before the dark curtain of covid fell, slowing but not stopping the planning.
Construction of the nation’s largest behind-the-meter solar project will begin in October after steel mill expansion in Colorado approved. The 240-megawatt solar farm will supply 90% of steel mill’s energy.
Boulder is the fourth to complete a biogas conversion project in Colorado, three of them occurring in the last year. A bill likely to be introduced in the next legislative session would give utilities further incentive to develop renewable natural gas.
A Colorado energy researcher stands to get $75,000 after a legal dustup about how rapidly the United States can achieve a 100% renewable energy grid.
Bye Aerospace has received $10 million in funding, the first half from a venture capital group earlier this year followed by a $5 million venture raise.
Colorado dryland farmer John Stulp says a majority of farmers and ranchers believe global warming is happening, and he says they sometimes get a bad rap. They’re a solution, not the problem.
Colorado begins a conversation about limiting natural gas in new construction as necessary for the state to meet its carbon reduction goals.
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