Rocky Mountain Instittue, the highly regarded think tank, credits Tri-State Generation & Transmission with plotting a a sharp pivot away from coal-based generation to a renewables future.
The decision by the Colorado city of Fountain to get with a new wholesale supplier says an awful lot about the rapidly evolving story of electrical generation. Electricity is rapidly getting cheaper and cleaner.
Colorado’s disputes among electrical cooperatives and also with and against its wholesale supplier Tri-State Generation and Transmission continue. Poudre Valley REA wants to be at the table in PUC proceedings.
Xcel Energy proposes to spend $102 million in laying out charging infrastructure in its service territory in Colorado, where the state has a goal of rapidly expanding EV sales to 42% of all cars sales by 2030.
Colorado’s Pitkin County—home to Aspen—aims to tighten the energy belt of its often big houses on the way to net-zero by 2030. Boulder County aims for the same in 2022. But Pitkin County is more ambitious in one way.
The city of Aspen plans to target energy use in its commercial and multi-family building sector in a new program called Building IQ. Commercial and residential buildings in Aspen account for 58% percent of greenhouse gas emissions.
Will other jurisdictions in Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley take the lead of Pitkin County as it prepared to squeeze the fossil fuel diet for houses?
Breckenridge would like its next affordable-housing complex to be built without natural gas lines. But can it?
Denver voters in 2017 approved the green roof initiative. Now, the results are showing up not only on roofs, but in other parts of the city’s new buildings.
When Comanche 3 began producing electricity in 2010, the coal-burning unit at Pueblo, Colo., was projected to continue operations to 2070. Now, it’s an open question whether it will continue operations beyond 2030.
Legislative renewable energy mandates came first, but lower costs and now sweeping statewide economy decarbonization goals have pushed the pivot in electrical generation.
Covid-19 has impacted electrical utilities by cutting demand, slowing development of renewable energy, and causing executives to fret about revenue. Some changes will be temporary, others permanent.
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