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BEST OF COPO 2018 | Rural electric cooperatives look at cutting the cord
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Colorado Politics is taking a look back at some of our most significant and compelling stories of 2018. This story originally was published Aug. 3. Luis Reyes drove up to Durango from Taos, New Mexico, on a sunny April day in 2017 to tell folks how the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, which he heads, left…
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Colorado follows a different drummer on federal emission rules
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WASHINGTON – The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment set itself on a collision course with the Trump administration this month when it proposed adopting the California standards for low emission vehicles. The Trump administration wants to largely abandon Obama-era Clean Air Act emission standards, but some environmentally-conscious states want to keep them. So…
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COVER STORY | Rural electric cooperatives look at cutting the cord
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Luis Reyes drove up to Durango from Taos, New Mexico, on a sunny April day in 2017 to tell folks how the Kit Carson Electric Cooperative, which he heads, left its interstate wholesale power provider and struck out on its own – and the room where he spoke at Durango’s Strater Hotel was packed. Kit…
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Xcel a model for power-grid plan promoted to Congress
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WASHINGTON – Energy industry leaders at a congressional hearing described ambitions for a national electrical grid similar to the plan Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest power utility, announced a day earlier. Democrats and some Republicans in Congress are seeking a power grid that relies more heavily on renewable energy without adding hefty costs for consumers. They…
