Colorado’s largest electrical cooperative has a new name, Core, reflecting its enlarged turf and expanded mission. Formerly it was Intermountain Rural Electric Association.
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?
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.
Declining levels in Lake Powell pose difficult choices, including whether to let farms and ranches dry up to maintain reservoir levels.
To get to 100% renewables, utilities need multi-day storage. Possible green hydrogen research at Craig could help deliver an answer. Xcel also has interest.
As we fiddle, the domes become hotter and Western forests become more fire prone. Today’s young will pay the heaviest cost for our inaction.
Aerial fight to document methane emissions, organics in Durango, Eagle’s 100% net-zero goal, movement on transmission, environmental justice, natural gas case.
New Mexico and Colorado are reining in methane pollution from oil and gas producers. Other states should, too, because piecemeal regulation just doesn’t cut it.
Experts dubious about Wyoming nuclear hopes, why New Mexico’s utility merger would be good, a rebuke to electrify everything, why so little solar in Wyoming?
Colorado State Rep. Tracey Bernett in her first session was deeply engaged in transformative energy legislation. In this essay she explains what drives her.
Wildflowers in mountain meadows and above treeline, too, have been dazzling this summer. But the increased heat arriving with global warming will not be good.
Tri-State G&T is closing coal plants and making other big changes. But some critics, including its largest members, say it needs even more fundamental change.
In a nation-leading step, Colorado now applies the social cost of methane in regulatory cases involving utilities and in other cases. What will be the impact?
An agreement has delivered the first $1 million for work to address impacts of a new transmountain diversion from the climate-stressed Colorado River headwaters.
With smoke now a summer constant and June heat rivaling that of Florida, the municipality of Aspen has agreed it must accelerate its climate action plan.
Colorado 350 and others sponsored an EcoFiesta in Commerce City, a few miles from the Suncor refinery, part of an effort to organize marginalized Latinos.
Oil and gas production has resumed on New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming, but not uniformly. And in New Mexico, anguish about abandoned wells.
Coal enjoys a resurgence as heat waves drive demand for electricity. Wyoming school district in Powder River Basin becomes a net-taker. Hydrogen finalists.
Alyssa Clemsen Roberts will take the helm of Delta-Montrose Electric Association after a stint at Platte River Power Authority.
Construction has begun on the new Evraz rail mill at Pueblo, Colo. It will be almost entirely powered by a vast solar farm to be completed by the end of 2021.
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