solar energy
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Community Solar Innovation Summit discusses future of solar energy amidst potential turmoil
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Participants in the annual Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA) conference were set to discuss innovations in the energy source this week, but looming legislation thrust the industry’s potentially shaky future into the spotlight. “We’ve ridden this solar coaster. Uncertainty is something we’ve faced before,” Jeff Cramer, CEO and president of CCSA, said to an…
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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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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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Environment Colorado offers cities avenues to go solar
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Solar can be as simple as sunshine, or at least the Environment Colorado Research and Policy Center is trying to make it seem so for Colorado towns and cities. The organization put out an interesting fact sheet and tour guide last week, “Ten Ways Your City Can Go Solar.” It’s part of the center’s Go…
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Colorado’s solar industry: Trump’s protectionism isn’t protecting us
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Among the president’s promises a lot of the business community and even plenty of Republicans were hoping he wouldn’t keep was his threatened crackdown on trade. But he has followed through in fits and starts, rattling his saber over aluminum imports here, appointing a free-trade skeptic as his U.S. trade rep there. Along the way, he has…
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As Pueblo eyes a fossil-fuel-free future, Mother Jones takes note
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A Pueblo city councilman wants the Steel City to rely completely on alternative energy by 2035, and he’s catching some national attention for it. Larry Atencio, the representative from Pueblo’s East Side, told Mother Jones what he envisions for the city, which has been in upheaval over energy prices for everal years. Atencio first introduced…
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Michael Bennet, Cory Gardner tout Colorado energy lab’s grant to build solar forecasting system
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The scientists at Golden’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory have received a nearly $2 million federal grant to build a better system to forecast when the sun will be shining, Colorado’s U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner announced Friday. The project is part of a Department of Energy program to improve integration of notoriously variable…
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Once a city of smokestacks, Pueblo’s future looks a lot sunnier
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Is the Steel City poised to be Colorado’s Solar City? It’s looking like it. Pueblo County was recently named one of the sunniest places in the county and recognized for its emphasis on growing the solar energy industry. Last week, Pueblo County earned a Bronze SolSmart plaque for being solar friendly. The award comes from…
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LOMAX: Solar trade barriers won’t help American workers
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There’s nothing wrong with a vigorous debate over where, when and how we get the energy needed to run our households, businesses and the broader economy. But too often, the debate over energy policy is falsely portrayed as an all-or-nothing, zero-sum game. In reality, it takes a mix of different energy sources working together to…
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Colorado voters set to decide school board and city council races, contentious ballot measures
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Voters across Colorado finish casting ballots at 7 p.m. tonight, deciding city council and school board races as well as local ballot issues ranging from funding for affordable housing and limits on oil and gas drilling to road improvements and municipal high-speed internet. For the first time in eight years, though, there isn’t a statewide…
