Author: Scott Weiser
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Colorado soars in 3rd quarter EV sales
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Coloradans are electrified by the state’s incentives to buy an EV despite the end of federal subsidies Sept. 30, driving Colorado into first-place in the nation for EV sales as a percentage of all motor vehicle sales. From July 1 to Sept. 30 Colorado buyers comprised 32.4% of new vehicle sales, the highest single-quarter percentage…
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Colorado’s energy crunch: Can renewables keep pace with data center demands? | ANALYSIS
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Colorado faces mounting pressure on its electrical grid as data centers and advanced manufacturing drive up power needs, even as the state moves away from coal and natural gas, in favor of wind and solar energies, and battery systems. At the same time, Colorado is competing with surrounding states to attract data centers and technology…
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Colorado’s 2040 ‘renewable’ energy goal faces cost challenges
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A new state report outlined how Colorado plans to reach 100% “renewable” electricity by 2040, a goal that supporters argued is crucial to achieving “net zero” carbon in a few decades but which critics countered is happening too quickly at a significant cost to consumers. The report examined a buildout of wind, solar, batteries and…
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Colorado and Denver governments renew push to dismiss energy lawsuit
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Officials from Denver and the state of Colorado, along with environmental organizations, asked a federal judge anew to throw out a long-running lawsuit challenging the building energy mandates by city and the state in a fight over how far the governments can go in forcing large buildings to cut fossil energy. The state and the…
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Colorado State Land Board approves carbon lease to restore San Luis Valley rangeland
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480-acre project will rehabilitate trust land near Alamosa, sequester carbon and increase school revenues The Colorado State Land Board approved a new partnership that aims to restore degraded rangeland while opening a new revenue stream for public schools. The board authorized a 15-year grassland carbon lease on 480 acres northwest of Alamosa to Land and…
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Colorado steps up EV rebates as federal credits vanish
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With the national electric vehicle incentives having expired on September 30 due to new federal legislation, Colorado is revving up its Vehicle Exchange Colorado program to keep EVs affordable, but only for buyers whose income is below 80% of their area’s median income and who have a qualifying gas or diesel vehicle.…
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Self-Driving CDOT crash truck protects highway workers
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Highway work zone crashes kill hundreds of people nationwide each year — two Colorado workers last year — but a new driverless, autonomous highway maintenance truck in Colorado aims to shield workers from deadly rear-end collisions by taking the hit itself. At a press event in Falcon on Monday, the Colorado Department of Transportation demonstrated…
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Western governors’ eye nuclear for power demand
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The Western Governors’ Association’s two-day “Energy Superabundance” workshop this week brought together Gov. Brad Little of Idaho and Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah with federal regulators, utility executives, investors and supply-chain managers. The workshop in Idaho Falls focused on nuclear power’s chicken-and-egg problem. Without workers there are no factories, without factories there is no fuel,…
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End of federal EV subsidies will hurt Colorado sales
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With a ticking clock on Gov. Jared Polis’ 2019 aspirations to put 940,000 electric vehicles on Colorado highways by 2030, his plan hit a major pothole when President Donald Trump ordered cancellation of the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act Clean Vehicle Tax Credits. On Sept. 30, the federal tax credits worth up to $7,500 per…
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Lawsuit over Colorado, Denver large building energy standards revived
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The lawsuit challenging Colorado and Denver’s energy standards for large buildings, which was dismissed on March 28, has been revived by federal Judge Regina M. Rodriguez based on an amended complaint from four apartment and hotel trade groups. The order, issued Thursday, reinstates the case after the plaintiffs corrected problems with standing to sue in…
