Wyoming energy gleanings
Constitutional scholar takes dim view of Wyoming legal strategy; lower Btu Powder River coal struggles for markets; new hope for carbon capture and storage.
Paths to a 100% clean energy grid
What will it take to get to a 100% clean-energy grid? Mostly a matter of doing what is known, say 2 researchers. A study by 2 federal labs is more cautious.
Colorado energy gleanings
Aspen wants to squeeze energy from buildings, Delta-Montrose Electric shows improved bottom line, Pueblo County resident frets about solar heat-island effect.
Taos warms and Facebook thrives: gleanings from New Mexico
In Taos as across the Southwest, temperatures continue to rise, especially on winter nights. And Facebook shows New Mexico the path forward, say op/ed writers.
Greening up roads and buildings
A Colorado bill proposes to add the global warming potential of materials used in buildings — and, in a national first, roads —in evaluating state funded projects.
Why so many candidates for the Holy Cross Energy Board of Directors?
Unhappiness can turn out candidates. But that doesn’t seem to explain this year’s bumper crop of candidates for Holy Cross Energy’s board. Could it be success?
Killing wildlife to see who wins
Many states, but not Colorado, allow wildlife hunting contests. The contests produce bodies, but do they help other wildlife or even livestock? Actually, no.
Telling the story of what was lost as a result of our thirsty Colorado cities
Headwaters River Journey in Winter Park graphically explains Colorado’s tangled interplay between growing Front Range cities and its Western Slope headwaters.
Climate, congestion and compromise in Colorado transportation bill
“Greenhouse” is found 42 times in the Colorado’s mammoth transportation bill. Congestion is part of the bill, too. And, unstated, is the word compromise.
An HFC specialist in nation’s icebox
Ah, the irony. The nation’s media wanted the expertise about a greenhouse gas used in air conditioning who lives in a valley with few, if any, such appliances.
Transmission enough for Crossing Trails, but what about additional wind & solar farms?
Tri-State members have begun getting power from a new wind farm in eastern Colorado. But as to future wind farms as Tri-State decarbonizes? Much to answer here.
Nigel Zeid seeks to share EV expertise after long run at Boulder Nissan
Nigel Zeid has left Boulder Nissan, hoping to share his expertise and passion for electric vehicles more broadly as Colorado readies for deep penetration of EVs.
Energy gleanings from Colorado
Solar farms in the works near Delta, Fort Collins and Pueblo, Jigar Shah shares thoughts on scaling the energy transition, CORE makes case to Aspen.
What you had to say
When Texas freezes over, and more on methane as readers respond to Big Pivots issues 35 and 36.
Gov. Polis’s climate crossroads: A time for hard choices
Roger Freeman says Colorado Gov. Jared Polis should hew to the climate path described by the late S. David Freeman and sign this year’s SB 21-200 into law.
Durango school bus has homework too
A Colorado electrical coop has embarked on a cutting edge project to learn how to use batteries to shave peak wholesale costs. A school bus has homework, too.
Biden climate advisor frames climate crisis as exciting opportunity
Get going, says Gina McCarthy, Biden’s climate advisor, on the energy transition, even if uncertain remains. And get the public excited about opportunities.
Is the moonshot an apt analogy for the urgency and scope of this climate-induced energy transition?
If the immediate work is mostly obvious, the urgency of decarbonizing energy is daunting. Is the moonshot of the 1960s really the most appropriate analogy?
$15 million just start of what Colorado will need for just transition from coal
A bill would put $15 million into just transition of Colorado’s coal dependent workers and communities, but an AFL-CIO official says much more will be needed.
No ‘just’ transition yet after 2019 closing of coal plant and mine in western Colorado
Western Colorado’s Nucla and Naturita hope state aid will help them transition from loss of good-paying jobs after a coal plant and mine closed in 2019.
