renewable energy
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FEEDBACK | A week worth celebrating; a tax hike worth torpedoing
Amendment 73: Massive tax increase is missing accountability As the former chair of the House Education Committee, I was always a champion for teachers and students. As co-chair of a Legislative Study Committee which included outside research for financing our schools, I fought to be sure our schools received adequate resources. Also as a private…
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Fort Collins is 9th Colo. city to take renewable energy pledge
The city of Fort Collins has become Colorado’s ninth local government to pledge to get all of its energy from renewable sources by 2030. The City Council voted 6-1 Tuesday night to take the”Ready for 100? pledge pushed by the Sierra Club. Democrat Jared Polis, the frontrunner for governor, is running on a promise to…
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Q&A with Kevin Lundberg | ‘Blessed and honored to be an elected official in Colorado’
He and his family live off the grid – way off – in a home of his own design that generates its own renewable energy. He’s a hardcore civil libertarian who earned a very favorable 83 percent rating from the emblematically left-of-center American Civil Liberties Union on its latest legislative scorecard. The newest Boulder Democrat…
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HUDSON | Increasingly affordable, reliable renewable energy isn’t so scary anymore
Technology develops in accordance with an ethos and logic impervious to ideology. Politicians on both the right and left have been badly burned in recent years by staking policy positions presuming tomorrow will look a lot like today. Whatever you may believe about evolution in the biological realm, technology changes incrementally in response to the…
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Xcel does an end run on the legislature — with an assist from Colorado’s PUC
When the Colorado Public Utilities Commission recently approved Xcel Energy’s Colorado Energy Plan, the commissioners made a highly politicized decision that ignored economic reality, bypassed the state legislature and allowed the company to break its promise to save customers money. Coloradans should be troubled not just by the plan itself, but by how it won…
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Saturday event on climate in Denver could heat up Colorado politics
A gathering that’s bound to favor Jared Polis and oppose Colorado’s oil and gas industry is set for Saturday morning at Manual High School. Organizers say they have an “unprecedented coalition” of labor, environment, youth, faith and community groups behind the climate cause. State Rep. Joe Salazar, who narrowly lost the Democratic nomination for attorney…
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Colorado Energy Plan will benefit communities, economy and environment
Colorado’s largest electric utility, Xcel Energy, has a plan to dramatically shift the way we produce energy by increasing the amount of renewable energy produced right here in the Centennial State. Doing so would deliver substantial economic and environmental benefits to Colorado residents in the form of new jobs, increased revenue for communities, and lower…
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COVER STORY | Rural electric cooperatives look at cutting the cord
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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Insidious Initiative 97 would destroy Colorado’s oil and gas economy
After decades of hard work, Colorado has a diverse and growing economy. Every sector of that economy is important, but the energy sector plays a critical role. Colorado’s business community will always be ready to defend it. Energy producers in Colorado literally fuel every other sector of the economy. With locally sourced and affordable energy,…
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Xcel ratepayers would get a bum deal under Colorado Energy Plan
Late last summer, and with great fanfare, Xcel Energy announced its proposal to close the Comanche I & II power units in Pueblo a decade ahead of schedule. They offered as replacement the euphemistically titled “Colorado Energy Plan” (CEP), a massive $2.5 billion fuel-switching scheme to move its Colorado customers away from baseload, reliable hydrocarbons…