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HB 10:1001 — Colorado’s
“Retail Distributed Energy” Game Changer
This is a big step! It means that no longer will our state’s investor-owned utilities be focused on 250-plus MW wind faclities to meet their RES requirements. They will of necessity be required to encourage retail distributed generation by the people who are consuming it, not just huge generation companies.
14Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Viewpoint: The Billion Dollar Block of Concrete
The insider joke is that utilities always want to build the next “billion dollar block of concrete” — not for the power, but because it can be added to their “rate base” and thus earn these returns. Why is their return on capital far higher than you or I can make on a secure investment?
13Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
State Task Force to Target Carbon Capture
and Sequestration
The move is intended to help address the cmplex legal, regulatory and policy issues surrounding CO2 capture and sequestration if Colorado’s coal industry is going to succeed in a carbon-constrained economy, said a state official.
11Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Vestas Building On-Site Turbine to Showcase Technology
The turbine will serve as a show model for the Danish manufacturer because it is finding that potential U.S. buyers of wind turbines are more likely than their European counterparts to request site visits and the latest testing data.
10Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado Legislature Approves 30% Renewable Energy Requirement
The new bill was finalized after a few housecleaning tweaks and will soon have the Governor’s signature on it. HB-1001 has been a major goal this year for the Ritter Administration and once law, will make Colorado second only to California in highest mandated percentage of renewables for power generation.
10Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Wind Turbine Development Sought Along
Stretch of I-70
Picture yourself heading westbound out of Denver for a day of skiing, only imagine it is two or three years into the future. No, you won’t see a high-speed train racing along side; but you may encounter dozens of wind turbines rotating high above on the mountain ridges between Idaho Springs and Georgetown.
9Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado Companies Blast Murkowski’s Bid to
Block EPA on Greenhouse Gases
Critics say Murkowski and coal-state Democrats like Rockefeller are pandering to entrenched fossil-fuel-based power sources and mining interests at the expense of a growing clean-energy sector like the one currently booming in Colorado.
9Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
EPA: No Plans for Own Carbon Trading Program
The Obama administration has no plans to set up a “cap-and-trade” program for greenhouse gases under existing law if Congress doesn’t pass legislation doing so, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in remarks at the National Press Club in Washington.
9Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Anadarko Revs Up Drilling in Wattenburg Area
The energy company says it will operate up to eight rigs and drill 450 wells in the northeastern Colorado Wattenberg Field this year. Overall, it plans to spend more than $2 billion to drill up to 2,750 wells in the region over the next five years.
6Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Interior Expands “Common-Sense” Efforts to Conserve Sage Grouse Habitat in the West
The federal government will start to protect the sage grouse as a “candidate” species under the Endangered Species Act. The Interior said the compromise decision embraces the latest science indicating that sage grouse need help to avoid extinction in the face of energy development, grazing and home-building.
5Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Ascent Solar, Vote Solar Initiative in the News
Ascent inked a $6.5 million sales deal with FTL Solar of Austin, Texas, while Vote Solar jointly released “Investing in the Sun” with Environment Colorado, which models the benefits in developing 1,000 megawatts of solar power.
4Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
State PUC Approves Xcel’s Two-Tier
Rate Structure
The plan essentially means the more electricity consumers use, the more they would pay. From June through September, Xcel’s 1.1 million residential customers will be charged a lower rate for the first 500 kilowatt-hours per month and a higher rate for all electricity above that amount.
4Mar2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Colorado is NOT Arizona
His critics will never acknowledge it, but executive leadership like the kind provided by Colorado’s governor can make a critical difference in a state’s economic well-being, even in the depths of a severe recession. Think we’re overstating the case? Take a look at what recently took place in Arizona, a state never known for consistent legislative policy-making.
4Mar2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Reasons for State’s Drilling Slump Depend on Who (and WHERE) You Ask
One can understand why energy stakeholders on the West Slope are particularly sensitive to the drilling regulations issue. In fact, the divide in thinking on the subject between the eastern and western halves of the state seems at times nearly as large as the mountains and passes that geographically divide Colorado.
3Mar2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Thank you Govenor Ritter for helping place Colorado among the Nations leaders in Renewable energy! 
Thank you for the leadership. I was thrilled when we approved a 10% renewable energy standard, ecstatic when Xcel ...
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