A big decision about hydropower on tribal lands
In a FERC ruling regarding a project on Navajo lands in Arizona, Native American voices are finally factoring into energy projects
Above 90% for Holy Cross? Not until 2025.
Electrical coop hits 68% renewables in January but new transmission needed on eastern plains to deliver prairie winds across the Continental Divide
Mountain Parks links with Guzman Energy
Company continues to add smaller utilities in Colorado and New Mexico
Thank you Big Pivots donors and sponsors
Big Pivots surpassed our November-December 2023 goal. This surely can be read as a vote of confidence by our readers!
How about 98.5% emissions-free electricity by 2040?
Study finds that existing technology can get Colorado to near-zero electricity without need for breakthroughs in geothermal, nuclear or other realms. It will requite a bit of natural gas.
A bit of help for Yampa in moving on from coal dollars
Colorado’s Just Transition legislation intends to help coal-dependent communities like this one ease into an economy after coal
A few thoughts on Xcel Energy’s biggest pivot yet
A lot of money, of course, and a lot of new transmission in and around metropolitan Denver. What else is there in this package?
Guzman Energy snags two more utilities
Steamboat Springs- and Grand Junction-based electrical cooperatives to pick up with Guzman when their wholesale contracts with Xcel Energy lapse in 2028.
Agrivoltaics & aquavoltaics, too
Colorado will probe the pairing of solar panels with canals and reservoirs. Can solar help solve the San Luis Valley water woes?
Tri-State and the big bad wolf
Member cooperatives are tempted to hop the fence to graze on greener renewable energy. Chief executive Duane Highley warns his flock about a big, bad wolf called resource adequacy. Can he keep them in his fold?
