wind energy
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Xcel ratepayers would get a bum deal under Colorado Energy Plan
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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…
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Insights: Jared Polis’ wonky answer on cost of renewables begins to roar
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He has to dumb it down. Jared Polis promises if he’s elected governor Colorado will get all its power from renewable sources by 2040, a future my affection for fried foods suggests I will not see. Voters might have the same problem, chicken wings aside: This wind-and-solar future is lost in a smog of vague…
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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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American Wind Action ad campaign pushes for more U.S. wind jobs
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American Wind Action launched a statewide campaign in Colorado Tuesday to encourage the Colorado congressional delegation to recognize the benefits of wind energy, and to support efforts to protect its 7,000 local jobs and contribution to the local economy. The group be airing several TV, print, radio and digital ads throughout the state for the…
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Colorado U.S. senators co-sponsor bill with tax breaks for clean energy partnerships
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Both of Colorado’s U.S. senators co-sponsored a bill this week to give tax breaks to partnerships between clean energy companies as Congress wrangles with tax reform proposals. They are trying to create incentives for clean energy companies to build the kind of infrastructure that helped oil companies fuel the U.S. economy. “It is time we update our…
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Letter: Renewable energy, not coal, is nation’s future
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Editor: Naturally, it’s the vice president of the National Association of Mining writing “Energy Department right to study impact of regulations on U.S. power grid.” Trump and the NAM are the only support the coal mining industry has. Carbon pollution from burning coal kills hundreds of thousands of Americans annually according to MIT.edu, and Americans…
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Ray Scott fires back at Hickenlooper on climate order: ‘The era of EPA overreach has ended’
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Assistant Senate Majority Leader Ray Scott, a Grand Junction Republican, swung hard at Gov. John Hickenlooper this week, criticizing the Democrat’s embrace of a “clean energy future” for Colorado in the face of President Donald Trump’s move to halt federal efforts to combat climate change. “Many Coloradans are dismayed and perplexed by the governor’s Tuesday…
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Hickenlooper declares Trump’s climate change executive order ‘will not deter Colorado’s efforts’
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Gov. John Hickenlooper declared Tuesday that Colorado will continue to pursue “a clean energy future” despite an executive order signed by President Donald Trump ending the federal government’s efforts to combat climate change. “We will keep building a clean energy future that creates Colorado jobs, improves our health and addresses the harmful consequences of a…
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Noonan: Political parties must change or die. What then?
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Our political parties are approaching an end game. A quick look at March registration numbers tells the story. Among active voters, Democrats and Republicans are even in registration. Unaffiliated voter registrations exceed both parties by 200,000 people. The short-term problem for Democrats in 2018 when voting numbers will be low is that Republicans have about…
