Renewable Energy
Colorado Companies Receive Federal Contracts to Improve National Forests
“These stewardship contracts will bring new jobs to the state, create a healthier forest for the surrounding communities, reduce wildfire risk and help generate a new source of renewable energy.”
27Nov2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Green Job Growth Constrained By Politics, Uncertainty
About 10,800 green jobs were created in the third quarter, a significant number, but much lower than the previous quarters – despite an improving economy.
20Nov2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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.
Renewable Energy Key to Swing States Results Say Groups
New polls released by the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) and the Advanced Energy Economy Ohio Institute show that voters in Colorado, Iowa, Ohio and Virginia – all states that were critical in deciding the outcome of the presidential election – support renewable energy.
16Nov2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Vestas Simplifies Global R&D Footprint — Colorado Operations Affected, and Hires New U.S. VP
In addition to previously announced closures of R&D operations in Houston and Marlborough, Mass., the Louisville, Colo., facility also will close. In the next three to six months, as Vestas closes its R&D offices in Houston, Marlborough and Louisville, there will be a resulting workforce reduction of about 85 people combined at the three locations.
12Nov2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Aspen Skiing Co. Partners With Coal Mine
for Methane Power
For a ski company that heralds powder days, Aspen Skiing Co. on Friday rallied atop a coal mine to applaud a power day. With a tap of a finger on a glass screen, a rumbling generator, fueled by methane vented from the Oxbow Corp.’s Elk Creek Mine, began producing electricity.
11Nov2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
CU-Boulder Offers Online Renewable Energy Certificate
The University of Colorado Boulder, together with the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), is now offering a graduate-level renewable energy certificate for online distance learners, non-degree-seeking students, and working professionals interested in gaining insight into the renewable energy industry.
8Nov2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
State of Energy in Colorado Topic of Discussion at 2012 Statewide Sustainability Roundtable
This Friday, November 9th, the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute will host the 2012 Statewide Sustainability Roundtable. Energy use, policy and productivity in the state of Colorado will be addressed, with the goal of uniting participants around a clean energy vision and motivating leadership to produce a long-term energy plan for the state.
6Nov2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Interior Fast-Track Approval of Renewable Energy Development at Risk
Many Native communities, like the Colorado River Indian Tribes (CRIT), argue that expediting the review and approval process for renewable energy projects undermines the time needed to take tribal concerns into consideration.
31Oct2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Ribbon-Cutting at Limon Wind Farms
The 400-megawatt facility 90 miles southeast of Denver was touted by U.S. Rep Cory Gardner as an example of why “we should extend the production tax credit to promote wind energy that leads to private sector investment like this one, new manufacturing jobs and a clean source of domestic energy.”
30Oct2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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
Weld County Energy Park Touts Data Center Metrics Study
According to a news release from the Niobrara Energy Park, recent CH2M HILL research shows promising international data center performance metrics for the project in northern Colorado, which if completed, would combine clean fossil fuels, alternative energy, microgrid, energy storage and cloud computing data centers.
24Oct2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Black Hills Energy Begins Operations at New
Wind Farm
The 29-megawatt Busch Ranch Wind development is sited 30 miles south of Pueblo in Huerfano County. It represents the power gen company’s first Colorado wind project, and will connect to the utility’s 94,000 electric customers with 36 miles of new transmission lines.
17Oct2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued- Tri-State’s Expanding Wind Footprint
The electric cooperative’s 67-megawatt Colorado Highlands Wind project is expanding to 91 megawatts. Construction, using 14 GE turbines, is expected to commence in July and be completed this fall.
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Thanks for the info Fred! 
I think its a 10% mandate not 5%. 
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Thanks for highlighting all the great work the Northern Colorado Chapter of CRES is doing. One small but important correction--the ...