After the Marshall Fire, questions about costs of rebuilding
A divided city council in Louisville wrestles with how best to rebuild, with immediate costs foremost or with an eye on mid-century goals?
Colorado’s carrots and sticks for buildings
With an incentive here, a mandate there, state legislators hope to nudge buildings to a low-emissions future of heating and cooling.
Quiet enough to hear the turn signal
No more grinding diesel sounds in this school bus in Steamboat Springs. More will follow as Colorado gets ready to invest massively in a generation of electric school buses.
Delta County’s strange case of no
The 472-acre solar project would have melded past and future, sheep grazing amid panels, bolstering local tax revenues. Why exactly did officials reject it?
Colorado’s new transmission authority
Called the “transmission developer of last resort,” the new Colorado Electric Transmission Authority now has its nine inaugural members.
Tri-State’s $186 million transmission plan
Tri-State Generation and Transmission, Colorado’s second-largest electrical utility, plans new transmission lines as it pivots to renewables.
Nuclear bill failed, but the conversation will continue
Utilities have figured out how to integrate high levels of renewables, but not 100%. Until they do, nuclear energy will be on the table, despite the high cost.
Spring is coming too soon
Another nice spring day—in mid-winter. But that early spring of recent years has never boded well for summer time heat and all that comes with it.
Not a Mack truck of old
Banish those thoughts of smoke-belching Mack trucks. The Mack that will soon be collecting compostables in Boulder will be all-electric.
Tapping heat from oil and gas wells
Plan to tap heat from oil and gas wells in Colorado’s Wattenberg Field; Colorado’s abandoned wells; and Eagle County opposes crude oil shipments from Utah.
Nope to nuke study in Colorado
A bill proposing study of nuclear energy in Colorado was pitched as serving multiple benefits, including a way to use existing infrastructure. It quickly died.
Shaving (electric) peaks in Aspen
An innovator, Aspen now has a Tesla battery at a location where it can do the most good, instead of at a mountain-top restaurant.
No-go for tourism idea in Craig
As the Colorado town of Craig struggles to create a future beyond coal, one idea was for a new museum. That idea got promises of funding but went no further.
A role for carbon capture in Colorado?
A task force recommends state legislators create a legal framework if Colorado’s pathway to deep, deep economy wide decarbonization must go underground.
Comanche 3 idled once again
Colorado PUC orders a report about the latest “generator casualty.” Much larger questions remain about reliability of state’s youngest coal plant.
A win-win in Southwestern Colorado
Why La Plata Electric directors believe their deals with Tri-State G&T and Crossover Energy Partners gives them the best possible deal, lower carbon and costs.
On the brink of yes in Colorado
State regulators say Xcel has justified spending $1.7 billion to build transmission across Colorado’s windy and sunny eastern plains.
Islands in the Rockies
Colorado a century ago was poorly connected by roads. Its electrical utilities still are poorly linked. Why they need energy markets.and how that may happen.
No. 1: Methane gets the nudge in Colorado
Natural gas will remain for decades, but Colorado in 2021 began pushing firmly but gently to begin suppressing methane emissions, especially from buildings.
No. 2: Getting to 100% by decade’s end
Some Colorado utilities want to get to 100% emissions-free electricity by 2030, others just 80% or above. What mix of new technologies will get them there?
