A new dimension in the Colorado River debate
Climate change adds a new layer to the talk in the fast-declining Colorado River Basin. Net-zero concepts moves forward. Plus planning for extreme weather.
Solar not shining so brightly
Solar companies have been struggling with supply chain issues, the most profound being an investigation into possible violations of import policies from China.
Tri-State G&T asks for 2025 projects
Tri-State G&T has asked for proposals for renewable energy to go on line into 2025. Meanwhile, Mountain Parks Electric and three other of members say they want to reduce their purchases of wholesale power.
From Afghanistan to decarbonized buildings
This Princeton graduate, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, is now a different and even more global mission. He wants Americans to electrify their buildings. Is this a war we can win?
$15 million for Colorado coal communities
State appropriation may not be enough, but there will soon be a bulge of federal dollars
A bigger map for Xcel’s Alice Jackson
Alice Jackson will be taking responsibility for mapping out how Xcel Energy plans to achieve net-zero energy by mid-century across its8-state service territory.
Carbon capture and storage in Colorado?
A Denver-area firm was ready to announce a partnership with two ethanol plants in Colorado for carbon capture and storage. But then it went mum. Why?
Subterranean Ogallala Blues
In “Running Out,” a finalist for the National Book Award, a Kansas farm boy goes home to unravel the mystery of Ogallala Aquifer depletion and discovers the answers, like the geology, can be confounding. In this, it’s not unlike so many of the big questions of our time.
Plenty of food, but not for all farmworkers
Those picking the food we eat often go hungry themselves. A quick look at the anomaly of hungry migrant laborers in the orchards of fruit and fields of vegetables.
It’s off the fence for United Power
With new confidence they can afford to leave Tri-State G&T, United Power’s directors also decided that they cannot afford NOT to leave their wholesale supplier.
Red-flag warnings on the rise in Colorado
As fire risk has grown in Colorado, the state’s electrical utilities have elevated their risk. The Marshall Fire, some say, has made them even more nervous.
A hot, dry wind licking at winter’s back door
A record number of red-flag warnings in April have left many Coloradans on edge, fearful of what the the lengthening wildfire season will bring.
Fossil-free in frigid Fraser
As Colorado debates how to decarbonize its buildings, evidence arrives of the cost-effectiveness of air-source heat pumps and other technologies that work even in the coldest places.
A sharper pivot for Xcel Energy
A settlement agreement proposes to retire Comanche 3 sooner and identifies a 25-year yardstick for evaluating the need for new natural gas plants. It also punts some key decisions.
Home court for Colorado climate lawsuits
San Miguel County and Boulder lawsuits against two oil companies will be heard in Colorado. That helps. But these cases will still have an uphill struggle to prove damages that might seem obvious
Methane’s record rate increase
Methane packs a punch during its brief lift. Carbon dioxide, less so, but “40% of the Ford Model T emissions from 1911 are still in the air today.”
Colorado gleanings: building emissions
Short items from Colorado’s efforts to squeeze emissions from buildings, large and small, commercial and residential.
Glen Canyon’s sagging electricity output
Generation of electricity at Glen Canyon Dam sags as Colorado and other Colorado River Basin states struggle to slow the decline of Lake Powell.
Wyoming gleanings: coal, eagles and EV’s
What will it take to put EVs on Wyoming’s highways? Wind developer guilty in death of three eagles. And why the severance tax on coal was cut.
A first for Platte River Power Authority
As it moves toward 100% emissions-free electricity by 2030, a Colorado utility has created a new “transition & integration” division. It’s part of a trend.
