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Xcel Asks State PUC to Exclude Boulder
From Programs (Unless)

The utility is asking state regulators to allow it to exclude Boulder customers from certain renewable energy and demand side management programs –unless the city guarantees it will assume the their costs if the city forms a new municipal utility.

21Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Longmont Moves Forward on Drilling Rules

The key provision of the new rules gives energy companies the opportunity to shortcut the city’s approval process by voluntarily agreeing to tougher drilling standards than the state requires.

16Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Legislators Reject Bills to Temper Gas Drilling Impact

Two initiatives to temper the impacts of oil and gas drilling in Colorado — requiring a 1,000-foot setback from homes and limiting the use of open fluid pits — were rejected earlier this week by a legislative committee.

9Feb2012 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Boulder County Votes to Place Temporary Moratorium
on Drilling

The public will be able to comment March 1, according to the county’s website, “on the local impacts associated with oil and gas development, and on the appropriateness of continuing or amending the temporary moratorium.”

3Feb2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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El Paso County County Adopts Slimmed-Down Oil and Gas Regulations

The Board of County Commissioners voted 3-2 to approve a proposal that was significantly scaled down from what the county’s planning commission approved earlier this month. The regulations govern transportation, emergency response, noxious weeds and, controversially, water quality issues related to drilling.

1Feb2012 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Niobrara Data Center Energy Park Honored

Niobrara Energy Park is a proposed 640-acre micro grid project located near the Colorado-Wyoming border that will integrate natural gas and renewable energy generation facilities, including solar and wind energy, with data centers and energy research.

24Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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CSU Professor Developing Sustainable Bioplastics

Chemistry professor Eugene Chen has developed several patent-pending chemical processes that would create sustainable bioplastics from renewable resources for use on everything from optical fibers and contact lenses to furniture and automobile parts.

18Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Eight Things to Watch in Colorado’s Solar
Marketplace in 2012

One big issue is repowering commercial-scale solar. The state PUC is expected to finalize its ruling on Xcel Energy’s 2012-2013 renewable energy compliance plan in the first quarter, which will significantly influence the number of megawatts that will be added this year.

6Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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The Broe Group Acquisition Beefs Up
Great Western Industrial Park

The purchase of 320 acres from Eastman Kodak will increase the opportunities for economic redevelopment in the Windsor area, with the park already becoming a prominent location for manufacturing and energy companies like Owens-Illinois, Front Range Energy, Reliant Holdings, Vestas and Hexcel.

4Jan2012 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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NREL Helps Retailers Checking ‘Nice’ on
Energy Savings List

Although the power is always “on” for use in our country’s buildings, the U.S. Department of Energy and NREL are working with the nation’s commercial building owners — from retailers to offices and warehouses — to discover innovative ways to reduce commercial building energy use.

2Jan2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Stapleton Home Tops LEED Platinum Projects

One of the homes featured in this year’s round-up is an HGTV Green Home located in the popular Stapleton infill development of Denver, which Jetson Green describes as a New Urbanist Community. Read more about what makes this a fantastic LEED Platinum project.

29Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Commerce City Puts Fracking Decision on Hold

The council has taken a 30-day “timeout” from its review of whether it should ban hydraulic fracturing for six months. It wants to hear from the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission as well as from industry representatives before it makes a decision on what to do longterm.

21Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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LEED Update — CU Boulder’s Williams Village North

The new $46.5 million residence hall has won LEED Platinum from the U.S. Green Building Council. It incorporates several eco-friendly elements such as use of solar panels which account for 12.5% of its energy source, and high-performance heat recovery systems.

19Dec2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
  • Will The World Warm To Solar Shingles?

    Those shingles on your roof have nothing better to do than soak up the sun all day long—why not put them to work in powering your home as solar power producers? It’s a commonsense concept, and one that Dow Solar (a division of Dow Chemical) has been working on for a while. But new research from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia may go one better, by helping to develop solar shingles that also help to heat your home.

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