hydropower
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A year later, Colorado Energy Office one step closer to reauthorization
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What a difference a year makes: On Wednesday the House Transportation & Energy Committee gave near-unanimous support to reauthorizing the Colorado Energy Office (CEO). The CEO, which is housed in the governor’s office, was the subject of a heated debate last year. Ultimately the bill failed in a power struggle between Senate Republicans, who wanted to…
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Retired Air Force General Ronald Keys talks energy, national security with Colorado farmers
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In the decade he’s been examining the relationship between climate change and national security, retired Air Force General Ronald E. Keys says he’s seen huge advances in efficiency, affordability and ways to use renewable energy in more and more situations, but some of the most profound changes he’s seen have been in attitudes. “People would…
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Insights: Rick Perry’s energy grid study holds shocks for Colorado
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Colorado has a lot to win and more to lose in a long-delayed analysis of the nation’s power grid. The likely conclusion of the 60-day study called for by Energy Secretary Rick Perry in April is that a steady supply of electricity depends on a reliable market for coal. A draft copy leaked last month…
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Hydropower could deliver Colorado cheap, clean energy, says U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn
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U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs says hydropower generated from water pumped back uphill and released again is the wave of the future for clean energy in the West. His bill, the Bureau of Reclamation Pumped Storage Hydropower Development Act, cleared the U.S. House on a voice vote last week. If it passes the Senate,…
