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.
Renewable natural gas is hard to find
As Colorado starts squeezing natural gas from bujldings, Black Hills Energy proposes a voluntary program that will primarily use carbon offsets. Renewable natural gas itself is hard to find.
Colorado energy gleanings
Black Hill Energy’s plan for 90% emissions reduction, microhydro at Snowmass, Eagle County’s beneficial electrification, Solar United Neighbors
Colorado energy gleanings
A dead-end on Aspen’s natural-gas sabotage, solar moves forward in Yampa Valley, hydrogen plan released, Vail Resorts hits 85% renewables, Fort Collins blows past emissions goal.
Colorado’s difficult journey of building decarbonization
Nobody in the world has done this, replacing natural gas combustion within buildings at scale. Colorado must if it hopes to achieve its goals of emissions reductions.
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.
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.
Will Colorado pioneer new metric for hurrying up beneficial electrification?
Demand for natural gas in buildings would be further crimped if a bill considered in Colorado gets passed. One provision puts a social cost on methane.
Questions in Colorado after the big chill
Colorado regulators are looking into what gas utilities should have known before the February chill that briefly sent natural gas prices shooting upward.
A 15,000-foot view of Colorado’s legislative climate & energy landscape
Transportation and building emissions will top the energy and climate agenda as Colorado legislators seek to advance work on ambitious decarbonization goals.
Colorado’s top energy stories in 2020
From a decarbonization roadmap to a giant solar farm to firming plans for 100% renewable energy, Colorado’s energy transition in 2020 told in these stories.
Something Colorado can crow about
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis continued his race-to-the-top tour with utilities, this time commending Black Hills Energy for its carbon reduction goals for 2030.
