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?
Could this be anything other than gas?
Platte River Power Authority issues RFP for up to 200 MW of dispatchable generation. Opponents of natural gas fuming.
Colorado got 2.6 times more energy from small-scale solar in 2017-2022
And there’s still plenty of roof space for more panels
Why data center tax breaks in Colorado? They’re coming anyway.
They use water, deliver relatively few jobs and could stall Colorado’s progress toward decarbonization. So why would we deliver subsidies?
Coloradans offer to cut water use in exchange for $8.7 million
A corn farmer who proposes to reduce use of Colorado River by 600 acre-feet would get enough money to buy what he calls an nice-sized tractor
Water costs in San Luis Valley Valley could quadruple
An acre-foot once cost $75 but could rise to $500as water managers struggle to find balance between demands and supplies — and the compact with New Mexico and Texas, too
What role will carbon capture play in Colorado’s efforts to end emissions?
Gov. Polis hosts conference today on the topic. New MOU with Alberta explicitly mentions it as a topic for cooperation
Firmer but still sort of pudgy numbers for Tri-State members eyeing the door
FERC issued documents that seem to provide Tri-State G&T members a clear idea about the cost of exiting. As always, there are asterisks aplenty.
A freight train of thoughts about the Colorado River
Becky Mitchell, Colorado’s chief negotiator on the Colorado River, demands that the lower-basin states take meaningful action on correcting the ‘structural deficit’
Bill limiting nonfunctional turf planting clears Colorado Senate
Minor pushback to proposed limits on new water-thirsty grasses in areas that get little or no foot traffic
