No. 7: Can Tri-State stay upright?
United Power dwarfs many members of Tri-State G&T. It wants to jump ship. Poudre Valley and La Plata may also. Can Tri-State survive if this happens?
United Power dwarfs many members of Tri-State G&T. It wants to jump ship. Poudre Valley and La Plata may also. Can Tri-State survive if this happens?
Once we stop dealing in absolutes for limiting greenhouse gases and allow picking and choosing solutions, we must allow for everyone else to do the same.
Contributions ranged from $2 upward, but all are acknowledged here. You helped make the second year of Big Pivots a big success.
Filings by Colorado’s two largest utilities reveal strong debate about how much longer natural gas will be vital to ensuring reliable electrical deliveries.
Coal rebounds briefly but long term trend clear, nuclear in Wyoming, Wyoming fails to land finalist but Colorado’s Innosphere does,; and yet more gleanings.
How Vail was ahead of its time with its first roundabout, why enviros cheer new transportation rules, and a new environmental justice advocate within C-DOT
Colorado tights valves on methane, RMI says natural gas plants less competitive, Colorado decarbonization roadmap, Platte River Power’s solar bids, and more.
It wasn’t even close. Colroado during he final 6 months of 2021 was the hottest ever when compared to records gong back 120 years.
After creating parks with grass, Vail landscape architect is now methodically removing it, a nod to growing water scarcity in the Colorado River Basin.
La Plata Electric will install air-source heat pumps; new website for members of Tri-State cooperatives, and United Power’s EV fast-charging alliance.
Guilt-free flying has arrived at Aspen-Pitkin County Airport, where all fuel sold is now offset with money spent for carbon-reduction projects around the world.
Binding carbon reductions and new lenses for examining the future of existing fossil fuel plants are elements of a proposed agreement.
Colorado will be seriously rethinking the risk of wildfire in locations where upwards of 80% of the state’s residents live as temperatures rise.
Winds? Nothing new. Even prairie fires happen. So exactly what part did the warming climate play in the Marshall Fire, Colorado’s largest ever? Plenty!
Declining levels of Lake Powell have left a boat ramp far above the water levels. It’s one concrete example of the perplexing challenge of a warming, aridifying climate in the Colorado River Basin.
This is the energy transition, messy and complicated, with much to like—but also much about which to disagree.
Electricity consumers will save 4% to 5% when Colroado utilities join organized energy markets—maybe more. What will it take to get there in the next 8 years?
Can Colorado achieve its 50% economy wide emissions reductions by 2030.? Yes, probably, say a team of RMI researchers. Much depends upon new rules created by a handful of state agencies.
Film about Suncor Refinery shown in Commerce City, Denver pulls trigger on 12+ solar projects, Tri-State G&T adds innovation officer, and new Colorado board named.
A new report points out that water infrastructure and systems for the 20th century climate will need to be juggled in the coming time of low- and no-snow winters.