All Posts Tagged With: "Boulder County"
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
So Many Green-Building Regulations –
So Little Time
In green building “Boulder style,” carbon reduction is everything, and 3,000 square feet is the magic number.
The city tied its energy use to Kyoto Protocol greenhouse gas reduction goals. If you build a new house in the city of Boulder, you must have a HERS (”Home Energy Rating System”) score of 70, over and out.
SOLAR SCOREBOARD
Solar is booming says a brand new report … but our latest round-up shows everything isn’t all sunny. Read about impressive new installations, but also a critique of the Air Force Academy’s deal, and disappointing results from the world’s first hybrid solar-coal plant on the West Slope.
7Jul2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
State’s Cleantech Industry at a Crossroads, Say Experts
While American companies are virtually unmatched at developing new technology, a lack of support from government and consumers is hurting growth, said participants at the Boulder County Business Report’s Roundtable yesterday.
18May2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
SmartRegs Gets Its Legs; Takes Some Heat
Boulder City Council began its first reading of the much-discussed SmartRegs proposal at their meeting on May 18.
In witness of an over-capacity meeting hall, Mayor Susan Osborne said it was, “the most important issue we’ll tackle this year, and the most complex.”
GEO Leads Effort for $25M Efficiency Retrofit Grant
The dollars will be leveraged with private investment to fund large-scale energy efficiency work in neighborhoods and commercial districts in the Denver, Boulder and Garfield County regions.
22Apr2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
PUC Orders More Transparency for Boulder Smart Grid
The smart grid already allows Xcel to read meters in Boulder remotely, route power around bottle-necked lines and detect power outages without relying on people calling in. But the utility now says it believes the total bill will reach $42.1 million, not including O&M costs.
8Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
The Perfect (Solar) Storm
The key to pulling off a project is the ability to obtain financing quickly. Developers should take advantage of Colorado’s Property Assessed Clean Energy (”PACE”) Financing and the U.S. Treasury’s 1603 payments in lieu of tax credits to help finance individual projects.
26Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Public Packs Valmont Power Plant Hearing
in Boulder
Residents took their turn at the podium in the County Courthouse for nearly four hours, pleading with the state’s Air Quality Control Commission to deny the permit for a host of reasons, mostly centering on the CO2 released each year when coal is burned at the plant northeast of Boulder.
15Jul2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
Boulder County Unveils Energy Efficient
Homebuilding Project
The contemporary looking homes to be built in Lafayette will include between 887 and 1,458 square feet of living space and feature solar PV and solar thermal panels, foam insulation and other energy-saving techniques.
10Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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