Closed biomass plant at Gypsum once was a major source of renewable energy for electrical cooperative. By the end it had become expensive.
Holy Cross Energy
Pushing the envelope at Holy Cross
Electrical cooperative takes step toward maximizing potential of distributed energy resources
Colorado’s decarbonization will continue despite Trump triumph
DC will be very different in January. But Colorado has strong momentum on its emissions-reduction journey
Slow going to Aspen and Vail
Holy Cross Energy has the energy for 90% emissions free milestone, but it can’t get it from this wind farm to its markets hundreds of miles away.
Above 90% for Holy Cross? Not until 2025.
Electrical coop hits 68% renewables in January but new transmission needed on eastern plains to deliver prairie winds across the Continental Divide
What to make of La Plata Electric’s claim that Tri-State G&T has been ‘sneaky & underhanded?’
Why should someone in Buena Vista or Morgan County care about this dispute? Because it’s is very fundamentally about innovations in rural Colorado.
Cooperatives get DOE grants for grid resilience
Wildfire risk lies at the center of grants given three electric cooperatives in Colorado and New Mexico
Holy Cross Energy drops new rates
Directors scrap rates but one coop manager says this issue will have to be addressed within a year or two
Getting Holy Cross-wise over net metering
Lots of issues here: social equity, closing in on 100% renewables — and whether rates adopted by Colorado’s forward-looking utility would break state law. Will that law be changed?
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.
