A misguided Colorado River task force?
State legislators created a Colorado River task force. John McClow, a prominent water official, argues that this represents a step backward.
Getting Holy Cross-wise over net metering
Lots of issues here: social equity, closing in on 100% renewables — and whether rates adopted by Colorado’s forward-looking utility would break state law. Will that law be changed?
Colorado’s newest biggest battery
And Xcel Energy will add more from planning begun in 2016 — with much more coming beyond this wave.
A pause —and now a sharp rise for Tr-State rates
Wholesale provider’s last rate hike was in 2017. Rates actually declined in 2021. They will rise again in 2024.
A sign of what’s at stake in the Colorado River
Becky Mitchell has first-ever assignment to represent Colorado full time in body of upper-basin states of Colorado River Basin
Tribal voices at the Colorado River table
Native Americans were not invited to craft the Colorado River Compact in 1922. Now they are at the table — and insist they must be part of solutions.
Rescuing the Colorado River
Three big ideas to rescue the over-burdened and declining river, but are states and water users ready for them?
United Power’s plan for after Tri-State G&T
Colorado’s second largest electrical cooperative has contracted with The Energy Authority to manage electrical supplies beginning in 2024
Why these campaign contributions?
Parker Water and others have rejected the proposal to export water from the San Luis Valley. What to make of these donations by this company?
Colorado’s updated climate projections
How will Colorado’s climate change in the next 30 or so years? Hotter, yes. Definitely. Precipitation? That’s a fuzzier picture.
A heck of a time for a drought conference
Like hard rains amid the Dust Bowl, Colorado has lots of water almost everywhere. That’s exactly the time to talk about what do as hotter and drier inevitably return.
Trustafarians on the Colorado River
In Denver, before a friendly crowd, a scathing description of the upper basin vs. the lower basin. Guess who was compared to ski town trustafarians?
‘Build it, and the generation will come’
Colorado’s Power Pathway is the biggest capital investment in Colorado ever for Xcel Energy. That’s not including the wind, solar and storage that the $1.7 billion transmission line will enable.
Alan Salazar to lead Denver Water
Key aide to top Colorado Democrats for more than 30 years will replace outgoing Jim Lochhead but position is only interim
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.
Atmospheric C02 hits 424 ppm in May
Carbon dioxide levels measured atop Hawaiian volcanoes show a 3 ppm increase in the last year. The world has more than doubled pre-industrial revolution levels.
What makes these four-corners towns tick?
A study of the economies and cultures of Durango, Cortez and Farmington, three Western towns with roots in resource extraction and processing that have taken different career paths.
Colorado’s ‘transmission developer of last resort’
If nobody else will build the transmission, the new Colorado Electric Transmission Authority has muscle to do so. Where might those wires go?
The declining Ogallala Aquifer
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law concerning the Republican River. Where he penned his signature was in a most unusual place.
A hard decision, the end of an era
Robert Sakata reflects on the rewards of growing vegetables on the fringes of metro Denver – and why he decided it was time for change
