Colorado squeezing water from urban landscapes
Pace of transition has accelerated, deepened and broadened as headwaters state struggles to embrace limits of water supply in a warming, likely drying climate
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.
What will Colorado River task force recommend?
Colorado legislators tasked the committee with looking for solutions on the taxed and declining Colorado River. The report is due in December.
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
Medical tourism in a land of fishing poles & orange vests
How this small town amid Colorado’s ’empty land’ became a go-to place for people with bad knees and hips
Helping utilities prepare for wackier weather
Colorado receives $17.2 million in federal funds that will be used for microgrids and other strategies to ensure the lights stay on
The hopes and good cheer of Charles Wilkinson
Eulogists gathered at the University of Colorado in Boulder remembered the visions, passions, and well-grounded mentoring by the law professor who knew how to use words and make a difference
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?
Tearing out bluegrass in Colorado
Dozens of Colorado cities win $1.5 million in state funding to tear out bluegrass, install water-wise landscapes
How might Tri-State use $970 million?
Tri-State lobbied hard to help G&Ts such as itself get a piece of the IRA pie. Might it use that money to close its coal-burning unit in Arizona?
How might Colorado’s coops use federal aid?
At least some of Colorado’s 22 electrical cooperatives have hopes of securing help through IRA and other programs. Here is a glimpse of their intentions
An RTO in Colorado by 2026
Southwest Power Pool says it has seven utilities lined up to participate in its regional transmission organization, the first that to overlap both the Eastern and Western Interconnections
Holy Cross Energy drops new rates
Directors scrap rates but one coop manager says this issue will have to be addressed within a year or two
Solar atop former coal plant
200 MW of solar going up in New Mexico at site of Tri-State’s Escalante Station. My oh my, how things have changed in just four years.
What do these numbers say?
A ProPublica database tells a story about Colorado’s shifting energy landscape and its advocacy organizations
Ideas suggested in update of Colorado’s greenhouse gas roadmap
Lots and lots of thoughts about how to refine the path forward as Colorado barrels toward it hopes emissions-free living
$17 million in Colorado goes to fast-charging stations
From Maybell to Springfield, outposts along Colorado’s more remote highways will soon be getting fast chargers for the traveling EV public
The quest for no-carbon aviation
What will it take to drive down carbon emissions when flying from Aspen?
A step forward for pumped-storage hydro
Company says it has deals with land owners along the Yampa River in northwestern Colorado
Still cloudy after all these years
After years of frustration, advocates hope that a legislative resolution can clear up the waters of Grand Lake. The lake’s one-priced opacity has been clouded by Colorado-Big Thompson diversions.
