Funding & Capital News
Colorado Delegation, Minus Lamborn, Presses
on Wind-Tax Credit
With thousands of wind manufacturing jobs already gone — including 500 in Colorado — eight of nine members of the state’s delegation say they are furiously working to try to save
the wind-energy tax credit before it expires in six weeks.
Three Warning Signs America is Losing the Global Clean Energy Race
While it has made progress, the fundamentals of America’s clean energy economy are not strong. The warning signs are staring us in the face. The first sign is America’s dwindling investments in clean energy innovation.
26Oct2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
GRID Alternatives Launches Low-Income Solar Program in Colorado
Solar electric systems were installed on homes built by Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver, saving an estimated $360,000 over the systems’ lifetimes. GRID’s volunteer-based model will also provide local job trainees and community and corporate volunteers with hands-on solar installation experience.
25Sep2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Clean Power Finance Targets Easier Solar Financing
During this year’s Solar Power International event, the company introduced the beta of its new suite of tools, CPF Tools 2.1, to make it easier for installers to find the most appropriate financing solutions for homeowners that want to go solar.
17Sep2012 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Solar is a Four-Letter Word To Many Investors
Failed or failing solar companies litter the clean energy landscape to the point where CEOs trying to raise money get told by venture capitalists, “I don’t want to get sunburned.” But there are occasional good signs out there. In fact, technology and financial agility can represent hope of rising out of the clutter.
13Sep2012 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Pueblo Feeling Impact of Political Gridlock as Vestas Cuts Workforce — 30 More Lose Jobs at Brighton Plant
Getting Vestas to build its wind tower plant south of Pueblo required a generous recruitment package of $31.8 million in federal, state and local grants and tax waivers, including $11 million from Pueblo’s half-cent sales tax fund for economic development.
20Aug2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
PUC Dismisses Appeal Of Xcel’s Renewable Energy Compliance Plan
The appeal included two requested changes to Xcel’s 2012-2013 Compliance Plan that SEIA says would have improved the business climate for Colorado solar businesses, which employ more than 6,000 people in the state.
20Jul2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
DOE Solar Investment Highlighted at SunShot Grand Challenge in Denver
Secretary Chu announced the “America’s Most Affordable Rooftop Solar” competition to aggressively drive down the cost of rooftop solar energy systems as well as nearly $8 million to nine small businesses to lower the cost of financing, permitting, and other “soft costs,” which can amount to nearly half the cost of residential solar systems.
18Jun2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
New Denver-Based Financial Planning Biz Promotes
Clean Energy Investment
TREI is a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing private-sector investment in solar, renewable energy and other forward -looking technologies, like electric vehicles. Zachary Bouck and Blair Braden are the creators of the new Denver Wealth Management firm.
15Jun2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Vestas CEO Sees U.S. Wind Market Down 80% Next Year — Without PTC Extended
“In the United States, the market this year is very, very busy,” Vestas Chief Executive Ditlev Engel told a gathering of EU European affairs ministers and other senior officials. “But because of the potential lapse of the regulatory framework in the U.S., this market will probably go down 80 percent next year,” he warned.
14Jun2012 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
U.S., Global Renewable Energy Investment Sector Faces Challenging Year
“The growth of China’s wind sector continues to be stifled by insufficient access to the grid, while a boom-bust scenario appears to have returned to the U.S. as a result of uncertainty over the expiry of key stimulus programs,” says Gil Forer, Ernst & Young’s global cleantech leader.
3Jun2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Energy Innovation Grants to Colorado Small Businesses
Six firms were selected to receive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Grants of $150,000 by the Department of Energy for projects on power generation from geothermal heat, emissions reduction and increasing fuel efficiency. Senator Michael Bennett spearheaded the initiative.
28May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Suspension of Massive Offshore Wind Project
a Market Indicator
“An analysis of current conditions indicates that a viable commercial market in the United States is still farther out, as much as three or four years away, at the earliest,” the companies said, making further investment impractical.
9May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued- Survey: Global Warming, Clean Energy Should be Priorities
Six in 10 Americans want the U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions regardless of other countries’ emissions efforts, according to the survey. Only 6% say the U.S. should not reduce its greenhouse emissions. The study also shows only half of Americans have heard of the Keystone XL pipeline. Among those who have heard of the pipeline, 63% support the project.
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Thanks for the info Fred! 
I think its a 10% mandate not 5%. 
To see this exciting change as "scary" seems incredibly short-sited to me. Between the increasing power demands caused by ...
Thanks for highlighting all the great work the Northern Colorado Chapter of CRES is doing. One small but important correction--the ...