All Posts Tagged With: "City of Boulder"

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Mandatory Efficiency Requirements in Boulder?

Unsatisfied with the energy reductions achieved through voluntary incentives, the Flatirons City is considering creating a mandatory energy-efficiency program for the commercial and industrial sector.The program would be similar to the city’s SmartRegs program, which introduced energy-efficiency requirements for rental housing.

21May2012 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel Energy Seeks PUC Approval of Low Cost
Wind Deal

David Eves, chief executive officer of Xcel’s subsidiary Public Service Company of Colorado, said the wind energy offer from NextEra was too good to pass-up. “This proposed purchase contains the lowest-cost wind energy we’ve seen, making it competitive with other energy sources.”

19Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Boulder and Partners Celebrate Successful Energy Efficiency Innovations

“In 2006, Boulder adopted the Climate Action Plan, which challenges the community to meet the Kyoto Protocol goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012,” said City Manager Jane Brautigam.

16Aug2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Xcel’s Chief Executive Vows to ‘Get a Fair Price’
for Assets From Boulder

“The bottom line is we believe municipalization would be a bad thing for the citizens and customers,” Fowke said, and predicted that the municipalization plan, supported by the Boulder City Council, would be rejected by voters in the fall.

28Jul2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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A City-Owned Utility?
Boulder Takes It to the People

It will be extremely interesting to see what happens this fall when folks will be essentially asked … how much clean power they want, and more importantly, how much they’re willing to pay for it. Apparently, 90% of electricity generation from wind and solar by 2020 isn’t enough.

22Jul2011 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Who Will Deliver the Light in Boulder?

In Boulder, there is little debate over the cause of climate change. Everyone knows wind and solar are good and coal is bad. You would think the carbon conscious residents and council members would hop all over Xcel’s recent proposal to deliver 70 percent wind power to the city by 2013 and 90 percent by 2020. Well, it’s not that simple. While carbon reduction is a goal, it’s not the only goal.

19Jun2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Boulder Stumbles Going Green

For all the solar panels arrayed on the roof of the municipal building on the corner of Broadway and Canyon, the roar of traffic tells a different story. The people of Boulder are just as wedded to their cars as they are anywhere else in America. The city has tried hard to try to get people to use public transport. But the buses crossing this busy intersection are all virtually empty. “Changing behaviour at a community level is not easy and it doesn’t happen at a rapid pace,” admits Jonathan Koehn, Boulder’s regional sustainability co-ordinator, during a tour of some of the city’s green initiatives.

2Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Former NREL Chief Engineer Leads New Turbine Company

Sandy Butterfield says Boulder Wind Power will design and build the next generation of direct-drive wind turbines. It plans to have 15 employees in place by this summer and possibly 30 by the end of the year.

4Apr2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Festering Issue — The Cost of Smart Grid and
Who Should Pay

The price tag for upgrading the country’s system is set at $165 billion over the next two decades according to industry experts. As the costs mount, consumer advocates in Colorado and across the country are questioning how smart grid should be financed and who should pay the bill.

15Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Chu Aims to Double U.S. Hydropower Capacity —
Without Building New Dams

The Secretary said improvements to the existing infrastructure could add 70,000 MW of capacity. “We will be pushing this,” Chu said at a White House forum. “We’re not talking about a lot of large, new reservoirs. Just work with what we have and it’s a massive amount of power.”

17Nov2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Project Showcase –
More Capacity Using Less Energy

“Wastewater treatment typically represents a city’s single largest investment in the environment,” says Randy Earley, Utilities Project Manager for Boulder’s Public Works Dept. “Eenergy is an uncontrollable cost so we try to make our processes as efficient as possible to save money in the long run.”

14Oct2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued


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