Bill moving through Colorado Capitol that would allow Xcel Energy and Tri-State G&T to keep water rights for 20 years after last coal plant closes
Xcel Energy
When utilities shut down the electrical grid
Xcel Energy had never before shut off power to its customers in Colorado to reduce risk of wildfires, but it’s not the first utility do so. It’s a complex, technical operation pioneered in California
What constitutes a just transition for Pueblo?
Report calls for a nuclear plant to replace Comanche 3. But high costs and radioactive waste pose barriers to acceptance.
Nuclear a bad deal for Pueblo at any cost
City should not become a guinea pig for a technology that has not solved its waste problem
Theater in Pueblo about nuclear, but the real story will be delivered June 1
Debate about what constitutes ‘just transition’ lies at center of debate about what will replace Comanche 3
The most tangible evidence yet in Moffat County
Pumped-storage hydro study one of the possibilities as Colorado community looks to short up economy after coal plants close later this decade.
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?
A few thoughts on Xcel Energy’s biggest pivot yet
A lot of money, of course, and a lot of new transmission in and around metropolitan Denver. What else is there in this package?
The next chapter in Colorado’s decarbonization story
It may not read like Chinatown but this story about weaning our buildings off combustion of gases could get interesting.
Will Colorado’s Baca County get its wishes?
Solar and developers have arrived in southeast Colorado. But will the transmission get there to help this county transition from the agriculture supported by the Ogallala and other fast-diminishing aquifers?