“Pleasantly plump,” is how one speaker described the proposed limits to exterior energy use at homes around Aspen. With the metaphor established, the comments rolled.
energy transition
Where oil and gas bills get sent to die
Senate president Fenberg takes a hard question about his choice of a committee for the first hearing: it was a statement bill.
Embracing edge-of-grid technologies
Mark Gabriel, the CEO of United Power, says transmission is nice but his and other utilities must embrace what is close at hand
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Guzman Energy snags two more utilities
Steamboat Springs- and Grand Junction-based electrical cooperatives to pick up with Guzman when their wholesale contracts with Xcel Energy lapse in 2028.
What makes these four-corners towns tick?
A study of the economies and cultures of Durango, Cortez and Farmington, three Western towns with roots in resource extraction and processing that have taken different career paths.
In Pueblo, a study of what comes after coal
Pueblo will always have chiles. But coal? It’s gone after 2030. A committee is studying energy alternatives. Nuclear is among them.
Ruckus about Holy Cross solar rates
Electrical cooperative says new rates needed to help sustain electrical grid as it nears 100% carbon free energy. Solar installers see it very differently.
Tri-State plans to burn coal at Craig until 2030. Why so?
Colorado’s second largest utility worries about cost of reliable electricity with renewables. Environmental advocates challenge extreme-weather and other assumptions
Can Colorado provide a model for other states?
PUC chair Eric Blank says Colorado is at a magical place in its energy transition. Can it be example for other states with purplish political complexions?