Xcel’s all-electric bucket truck
Xcel Energy has its first all-electric bucket truck in Colorado. Other electric fleet vehicles will soon follow.
EVs now across Colorado
From Cheyenne Wells to Dolores, even the smallest places have EVs. Boulder nad Pitkin counties predictably lead in per-capita EV ownership.
Finding partners for solar + storage
Holy Cross Energy’s solar + storage project near Glenwood Springs reflects partnerships and synergies. Can it find other such projects in the Aspen-Vail-Rifle area?
Questions about Colorado’s second largest utility
Tri-State Generation and Transmission has moved briskly in recent years, but is it moving fast enough to hang onto its members?
Polis seeks $1.9 million to revamp Colorado River crisis team
Colorado governor to ask lawmakers for $1.9 million to create new policy and technology team to aid negotiators as river crisis deepens
A biggest ever in Colorado for battery storage
Tiny now, like a pebble, lithium-ion battery storage in Colorado will soon be like a boulder. What else is needed to complete this emissions-free jigsaw puzzle?
When no home is affordable
In the Colorado city of Durango, making $80,0000 a year isn’t enough to get you much in the way of housing. How did it get this way? What are the solutions?
Yuck or will we get used to it?
Colorado OKs drinking treated wastewater. Next: convince the public it’s a good idea. (Hint, at some level, many of us already do).
Cleansing the dirty linen in our geographic drawer
Evans will almost certainly be replaced as the name for Colorado’s 14th highest mountain. But what about Byers and other names associated with an ugly massacre?
Pick your Colorado River metaphor
The river is in deep doo-doo, and worse may very well come. So why such a sluggish reaction?
Worsening hydrology tilts RTO benefits
A new study finds even greater benefits to many Colorado electrical utilities froma regional alignment due to declining electrical production from dams.
Betting on green hydrogen answers in Colorado
A billionaire industrialist from Australia ays he will invest money in Colorado in search of ways to commercialize green hydrogen. State officials say this “further cements Colorado as a frontrunner in clean energy technology.”
Also new in hydrogen
Former New Mexico mine site in running for green hydrogen study; Princeton’s Jessie Jenkins on green hydrogen and other energy pathways; and Wyoming, too.
Net-zero Geos housing part of international tour
The housing project in a Denver suburb struggled at first but now draws many visitors from Colorado, curious about the net zero energy techniques. Recently it drew visitors from the other side of the world.,
What Colorado’s legislators are saying
Colo. State Rep. Tracey Bernett says indoor gas stoves will soon be seen the way lead paint is now. State Sen. Chris Hansen talks about agrivoltaics.
Coal nears an end
Pueblo mayor says agreement will be good for his city as coal plants close, but the mayor of a New Mexico town fights a coal plant closure. And will nuclear replace coal plant in Wyoming?
Pueblo wind factory tripling employment
CS Wind hopes to triple employment at factory in Pueblo that produces towers for wind turbines for use across the United States.
A big pivot on Denver’s highways
Governing Magazine tells of a sharp pivot by metro Denver’s planning agencies to steer money away form highway widening and into other transportation fixes.
Cheerful delusions about the Colorado River
We really would rather be getting news about another Super Bowl triumph. But the Colorado River is rapidly nearing total disfunction. It is the story.
Is geothermal the missing piece?
Experts think existing geothermal technology could be used to yield 100 times as much electricity. What will it take to make this happen?
