solar power
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Power restored after fearsome dust storm rips through Phoenix area | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
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ARIZONA Dust storm rips Phoenix area PHOENIX — Crews cleaned up downed trees and got electricity mostly restored for thousands of people on Aug. 26 after a powerful dust storm roared through the Phoenix area. The wall of dust towering hundreds of feet high dwarfed the city’s neighborhoods. Called a haboob, the wind-driven phenomenon blackened…
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Xcel gets the green light for $2 billion power line expansion
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The Colorado Public Utilities Commission gave Xcel Energy permission to spend at least $2 billion to build up to 650 miles of new high-voltage power lines in southern and eastern Colorado to serve windmills and solar farms. The company’s customers will pay for the new transmission lines through what’s called the Transmission Cost Adjustment rider…
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Biden to suspend tariffs on Asian solar panels following outcry over federal probe
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The White House on Monday announced plans to suspend tariffs on solar panels imported from four Asian countries suspected of serving as proxies for China to evade trade sanctions imposed by the Obama administration on Chinese solar imports as far back as 2012. The import of solar panels from Asia by American businesses came to…
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HUDSON | Increasingly affordable, reliable renewable energy isn’t so scary anymore
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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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Denver’s underprivileged see the light in Solar Training Academy
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As former Senate minority leader of the Colorado General Assembly, I’ve seen firsthand that when businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government come together, we can solve problems. That spirit of cooperation was on display at a recent event I attended at Denver-based Namaste Solar. GRID Alternatives and the Denver Housing Authority, along with local energy businesses…
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Kudos to Cory Gardner for defending rural Colorado’s renewable-energy economy
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As a county commissioner, it is my duty to protect jobs and investments that drive our local economy. I am glad to see that this is also a priority for Colorado’s U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner. Sen. Gardner, along with six Republican colleagues, recently submitted a letter to President Trump requesting a narrow tariff exclusion for…
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Denver cracks the top 10 for cities generating solar power, new report says
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Denver ranks ninth among cities in the country for generating solar power, according to an annual report from the Environment Colorado Research & Policy Center. Each year, the organization ranks nearly 70 major cities by megawatts of solar energy The top 10 were: The cities are ranked by those that have the most solar photovoltaic (PV)…
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NOONAN: Renewables can transform the state’s regulatory environment
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Renewable energy disruption may bring regulatory relief to Coloradans if Xcel pursues wind/solar energy bids to replace two coal-fired power plants. Xcel brought the bids to the Public Utilities Commission recently, showing that wind and solar are now more than competitive with oil and gas for electricity production. The economics of switching to renewables will…
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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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‘The global advanced energy transition is underway, and Colorado should take pride in showing the way’
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During my 40 years serving in the United States Air Force, issues around energy were always present. We needed energy to power our bases, fuel our fleets of aircraft, and we needed all of that energy to be reliable and affordable. As we rely more and more on sophisticated technology to execute our missions, that…
