colorado energy office
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Colorado spends $550,000 in campaign to promote electric vehicle sales
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A Colorado state agency spent more than half a million dollars to tout the benefits of electric vehicles in an educational campaign that promotes the EV industry. The campaign, which the state launched Monday, seeks to inform Coloradans about how, among other things, “seamlessly EVs can fit into your life and find answers to all…
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Colorado office stresses equity in new study of vehicle electrification
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The Colorado Energy Office called for equity in transportation electrification in a new report, insisting it must be a priority in eliminating gasoline and diesel cars and trucks from highways. Gov. Jared Polis has called for putting at least 940,000 electric vehicles on the highways by 2030 as part a “long term plan” toward a…
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Colorado will renew attempt to bring hydrogen plant to the Yampa River Valley
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After an attempt last year to secure funding for a green hydrogen pilot in the Yampa River Valley failed, state officials and Tri-State Generation and Transmission, among others, are taking another run at the idea, using a new program launched earlier this year by the U.S. Department of Energy. In February, the U.S. Department of…
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Colorado remains uninterested as much of U.S. turns to nuclear power
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The Polis administration appears uninterested in nuclear energy, bucking a growing consensus that nuclear power is an essential component in eliminating carbon emissions. Powering homes by splitting atoms is not part of Gov. Jared Polis’ Greenhouse Gas Roadmap plan for 100% carbon-free energy by 2040. While Will Toor, director of the Colorado Energy Office, said…
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Major cooperative agrees to aggressive clean power goals, consider retiring Craig coal unit 4 years early
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Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, which supplies power to 43 power distribution cooperatives in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Nebraska, agreed Wednesday to accelerate its transition to renewable energy and consider potentially shutting down a coal plant unit in the city of Craig four years earlier than originally planned. The proposed settlement before the Colorado…
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Wyoming funds carbon capture research in hopes of preserving its coal industry
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“>U.S. EIA spot prices for natural gas As Colorado transitions away from coal to renewable energy, neighboring Wyoming is investing in research and technology that officials hope will preserve its coal industry while also meeting carbon emission reduction goals. Colorado is open to deploying such a technology, but not to extend the life of existing coal plants,…
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Iceland looks to Colorado for geothermal energy projects
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WASHINGTON – Iceland, a country with abundant resources in geothermal energy, is setting its sights on Colorado as it tries to tap into the planet’s biggest market for electricity. New technologies are raising hopes that geothermal energy could produce much of the electricity used in the United States. Some of the sites ripe for geothermal…
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Q&A with Tracee Bentley | From farm kid to energy advocate
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Tracee Bentley may have left Colorado’s countryside years ago to become a mover and shaker at the State Capitol in Denver, but you can’t take the country out of her. Nowadays a leading voice for the state’s booming oil and gas industry – after carving out a rep as a hard-as-nails lobbyist and serving as…
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Give legislature credit for bipartisan efforts enhancing oil and gas regs
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Democrats and Republicans working together, conservationists and industry jointly testifying in support of legislation, and progress for the state of Colorado and its citizens. It’s hard to believe given the political discord that dominates our airwaves, but it actually happened. In fact, more than once. With what seems to be the media hot-button topic of…
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FEEDBACK | Teachers, guns & money — and more
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More money into the system – or better pay for the best teachers? The recent opinion piece from Colorado teacher Jill Cullis shed some light on the problems facing Colorado’s schools. Recent increases in funding, with the bulk of those dollars not going to teachers’ salaries, is the real problem. During Teacher Appreciation Week, we should…
