What will it take to charge a million EVs?
Colorado hopes to have nearly a million electric vehicles by 2030. Xcel Energy doesn’t want them all charging at once. A pilot program may deliver answers.
Can Tri-State clean up its power faster and even deeper?
Colorado’s second largest electrical utility has plans to retreat from coal. Environmental groups want a faster, deeper retreat. We just can’t, says Tri-State.
And now, the cars have been banished!
Something remarkable has happened during the time of covid in Olde Town Arvada, where I live and work. The automobile has been shunted aside. My heart is gladdened.
Katharine Hayhoe on how to change ‘us’ and ‘them’ in climate into ‘saving us’
Bubbly and funny, Katharine Hayhoe has a new book, “Saving Us,” which lays out the strategies for achieving the consensus needed to address climate change.
It’s getting worse and worser yet on the Colorado River
A federal agency has elevated the risk of Lake Powell reaching dead pool, unable to generate electricity. It’s part of what some call the new abnormal.
Study shows warming, drying climate causing fires to climb uphill in Western states
Wildfires can climb higher on mountain slopes because of increasing warmth, increasing Western forests vulnerable to wildfire by 11% new research shows.
Colorado’s oil and gas industry thrives today, but how about a decade from now?
Can Colorado’s oil and gas sector survive the energy transition better than has coal? At a recent industry meeting, speakers seemed to think it would.
How an oil-and-gas man became a leading advocate for capture of a potent greenhouse gas
Tom Vessels spent his life with methane, first trying to get it out of the ground and then trying to make sure it didn’t pollute the sky and warm the planet.
State senator says climate change demands Colorado elevate its decarbonization goals
A Colorado state senator sees a new opening in conservative circles for ideas to decarbonize the state’s economy at an even more brisk pace.
Water building rapidly taking shape on CSU’s new Spur campus in Denver
On the site of former meat-packing plate, a three-story building called Hydro has arisen on Colorado State University’s new Denver campus. The focus: water.
Welcome to Yosemite, the new Pyrocene Park
Binge-burning of fossil fuels has put afterburners on our millennia-long process of ending the Pleistocene, its ice and its mammoths. Welcome to the Pyrocene.
How Kevin Priola became a reliable vote for climate & energy legislation in Colorado
This Colorado legislator plans to remain a Republican. But in climate and energy matters, he stands with Democrats. He traces that to a January morning in 2015.
A moderate Republican’s take on what constitutes sensible climate policy for Colorado
State Sen. Don Coram often crosses the aisle to work with Democrats but says Colorado’s decarbonization goals cannot be achieved. He calls them asinine.
Rocky Mountain energy gleanings
New Mexico oil and gas industry pushes back on regulations to reduce emissions, PacifiCorp plans to get out of Wyoming coal by 2039, and Farmington hopes for hydrogen research
Colorado energy gleanings
Comanche 3 lawsuit, Guzman solar farm near Cortez, new owner of Vestas wind tower factory, hyperloop test track in Pueblo, fleet electrification, Bye Aerospace, broadened mission for state agency, and more gleanings from Colorado
Our new age of fire
As wildfires explode in the West but even in Greenland, fire expert Steve Pyne helps us understand the “pyrocene,” the planetary age of fire, one that we have created.
Hydrogen fueling station in works for metro Denver
by Allen Best A partnership has been struck that is expected to yield a hydrogen fueling station along Interstate 25 in Denver’s southern suburbs by late 2022 or early 2023. AAA Colorado has promised to have a tow truck and two support vehicles, such as are used for...
No more mountain and no more rural in the name of Colorado’s largest electrical cooperative
Colorado’s largest electrical cooperative has a new name, Core, reflecting its enlarged turf and expanded mission. Formerly it was Intermountain Rural Electric Association.
After a century, no more coal burning in downtown Colorado Springs. But what comes next?
Coal-burning will end at Colorado Springs’s Drake coal plant, the first of many in Colroado this decade. But how exactly will utilities get to 100% renewables?
Mountain resort communities can expect to get warmer, maybe even hot
Parallel studies for Colorado’s Eagle and Summit counties show a worst-case scenario of extreme heating in the 21st century if global emission cannot be tamed.
