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.
No more closed doors at Tri-State G&T
A new law in Colorado gives electrical cooperatives some to-do’s and can-do’s. It also tells Tri-State G&T that meetings must be open to members, news media.
Better ozone ranking, but still nothing to brag about
Metropolitan Denver in 2020 improved ozone levels over the previous three years but remained the 8th most ozone-polluted metro area in the United States.
United Mine Workers says it’s time to accept that change has come
United Mine Workers says change has come, but it wants a just transition for coal workers and investment in research into carbon capture technology.
Sequestering CO2 emissions in concrete
Two teams have split $15 million in XPrize money for creating ways to sequester carbon dioxide emissions in concrete. One used Wyoming’s Integrated Test Center.
If methane were at a dinner party….
A bill introduced by a Colorado legislator seeks to gently begin escorting methane to the door of buildings, a move that a new UN report says is badly needed.
21st Century Energy Transition Symposium
Biden climate advisor Gina McCarthy will launch the 21st Century Energy Transition Symposium on May 4-5. There’s something to interest almost everyone.
Two regional cooperatives call for a federal clean electricity standard
A letter signed by electrical coops in Colorado and New Mexico calls for a clean electricity standard among a broad suite of regulatory and legislative policies.
Fear along the Colorado River
George Sibley says worried debate in Colorado and other upper-basin states about how to avoid a Colorado River Compact curtailment is badly misplaced.
Colorado on cusp of market transformation in buildings
A survey conducted by an energy advocacy group found evidence that Colorado may soon see widespread adoption of all-electric homes in new construction.
It’s not drought, but what do we call it?
Drought, as we understand the word, doesn’t explain the diminished Colorado River flows. But what word better describes this steady disappointment in snowpack?
Why S&P knocked down its rating for Tri-State from A- to BBB-plus
Tri-State G&T gets another rating slip, this time by an analyst who cites the requests by 7 member cooperatives for buy-out numbers. Two coops have already left.
