Obesity in Pitkin County
“Pleasantly plump,” is how one speaker described the proposed limits to exterior energy use at homes around Aspen. With the metaphor established, the comments rolled.
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
Taking stock of Colorado’s energy transition
Will Toor and others talk about the big picture at the Colorado Solar and Storage Association’s annual conference
Federal money for Colorado electrical cooperatives
Microgrid in Fort Lupton, solar plus storage near Durango, and likely more money yet for the energy transition in Colorado
Polis goes electric in lawn and garden at a Home Depot
Colorado’s Front Range has a dangerous problem of ozone. New tax incentives for electric lawnmowers and other equipment seeks to shrink the problem.
Data center subsidy bill postponed
Proposal to award tax incentives fo data centers postoned in Colorado Senate. Meanwhile, warnings from the Washington Post…
Mountain Parks links with Guzman Energy
Company continues to add smaller utilities in Colorado and New Mexico
Fitch gives United Power A rating
Plans to leave Tri-State G&T on May 1, but exit fee still uncertain
Too slow or too fast? Pushback to Roadmap 2.0
Colorado has a new greenhouse gas reduction plan. Enviro groups say hurry up; one electric utility says slow down!
Our electric grid and coronal mass injection
El Paso County legislator wants to keep fossil fuels but has a kind of interesting bill this year
Grappling with reality on the Colorado River
With a deadline looming, will the key decision-makers finally deliver plans that accept the new reality of the Colorado River?
Glen Canyon Dam has created a world of mud
The San Juan River of the Four Corners region above all delivers sediment. Receding levels of Lake Powell reveal a shrouded landscape.
Keep this word in mind when reading about water: agronomics
Colorado Water Center’s John Tracy said we’re in a new phase of understanding water. It’s not building dams or canals. It’s not new technology. It’s something else.
For a change, farmers find sweet deals
Agricultural interests found prices at Northern Water’s water auction in Longmont to their liking, a sharp contrast to the long-term trend
Where oil and gas bills get sent to die
Senate president Fenberg takes a hard question about his choice of a committee for the first hearing: it was a statement bill.
Embracing edge-of-grid technologies
Mark Gabriel, the CEO of United Power, says transmission is nice but his and other utilities must embrace what is close at hand
Cowboy State finds it hard to move beyond carbon
At Wyoming Capitol, a denial of climate change — and continued support for carbon capture technology
How exactly did Luis Reyes catch the bus for Kit Carson?
New Mexico cooperative moves forward with plans for microgrids at Taos ski area and Picuris Pueblo and elswewhere
Jessica Matlock leaving La Plata Electric to take reins of Pacific Northwest G&T
Advanced La Plata Electric Association on several fronts but co-op remains a full member of Tri-State G&T
Should Colorado tell counties how to review renewable projects?
A bill being readied for introduction in March would create a state standard for review of renewable energy projects by Colorado jurisdictions. Is this really needed?
