Colorado’s largest utility may have plans to help Pueblo after Comanche 3. How can the company also help the state reach its climate goals?
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Water and Colorado’s energy transition
Will there be a water bonus as we close coal plants? In the short term, yes. It’s harder to say in the long term. Here’s why.
‘A great transition 50 years from now’
Colorado organizations get $329 million in EPA program for reducing methane use in buildings, landfills, coal mines and other places
A coal community without the coal
Colorado legislators said coal communities should be helped in the energy transition. This agreement with Craig and Moffat County provides a picture of what that looks like in practice.
Duane Highley and Tri-State’s journey from coal
Colorado’s second-biggest electrical generator looks at geothermal, nuclear, and other options as it closes coal plants
Plenty of outrage. Was it justified?
Wyoming politicos were furious, some enviros elated. But the Biden administration decision about Powder River coal leasing actually had no real consequence. Here’s why in a richer, deeper read.
Biden’s war on coal in Wyoming? The short story
Facts tell a more complex story. Coal companies have enough Powder River Basin leased to continue mining until 2041
Semaphores of a passing era in Colorado Springs
The Martin Drake Power Plant last burned coal in 2021 and now the smokestacks are coming down, too. Natural gas combustion will continue at the site indefinitely.
Fifteen years ago, coal was king. What does that say about the future of natural gas?
That’s the question before state regulators and consumers. Will today’s high-cost fixes become stranded assets in 15 years?
