All Posts Tagged With: "Colorado’s New Energy Economy"

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Commerce Secretary: U.S. Should Follow
Colorado Plan on New Energy

The country could miss a key opportunity for growth if it doesn’t soon follow Colorado’s example in pursuing the new-energy economy, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke said Monday. “I can tell you we need an energy policy in the United States.”

20Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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The CLEAN ENERGY Economies of Five Rocky Mountain States — A New Analysis

Colorado’s green economy leads the region with the most clean energy-related jobs (in number and as a percent) as well as busineses. In fact, 50% of all green businesses in The Rockies reside here. Another choice bit of info: the report found that employment in the green economy has grown significantly faster than total employment.

25Jun2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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GREEN JOBS? Maybe, But Not the Way You Think

The endless green jobs debate largely misses the essential point. The REAL driver for a new, green economy is the fact that the very largest global corporations have recognized the massive competitive advantage they can secure using sustainability thinking as a central driver of their C-strategy.

1Jun2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
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Colorado is NOT Arizona

His critics will never acknowledge it, but executive leadership like the kind provided by Colorado’s governor can make a critical difference in a state’s economic well-being, even in the depths of a severe recession. Think we’re overstating the case? Take a look at what recently took place in Arizona, a state never known for consistent legislative policy-making.

4Mar2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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Hickenlooper to Run for Governor

The Mayor stressed that he knows more about Colorado than metro Denver, having worked statewide as a geologist in the 1980s. He lost his job when the oil industry tanked and then opened up a brewpub downtown when the area was known as Skid Row, not LoDo.

13Jan2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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Ritter Won’t Run for Re-Election

Ritter’s “New Energy Economy” has been touted nationwide as an example of how to balance fossil fuels with renewable sources to diversify a state’s energy portfolio, and many Coloradans — some say a majority — support more regulation of extractive industries, including mining, to protect the state’s natural beauty and outdoor recreation economy.

6Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Governor’s Energy Office Touts Progress
in Annual Report

“We’ve made great progress in developing Gov. Ritter’s vision of a New Energy Economy,” said GEO director Tom Plant. “This report captures our wide-ranging efforts over the last fiscal year to position Colorado well for a new energy future, while helping to create jobs even as our state and the country faced the most difficult economic times in seven decades.”

3Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Solar Leasing Market Heats Up with SolarCity’s Arrival

SolarCity’s chief competition is SunRun, which launched its own leasing program in Colorado earlier this fall. Like SunRun, SolarCity’s program will be initially available only to homeowners in the Xcel Energy territory. But there are significant differences.

16Dec2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Ritter Seeks $10 Million Grant to Boost
Natural Gas Demand

The Governor’s Energy Office, in partnership with Clean Energy and the Southern and Northern Colorado Clean Cities Coalitions, has applied for a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to significantly expand the use of compressed natural gas as a fuel source for industry, transit and public vehicles in Colorado.

7Jul2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Ritter Champions Clean Tech at Capital

Ritter called for governors from the Rocky Mountain region and across the country to embrace the New Energy Economy and support entrepreneurs participating in the $1 million Clean Tech Open business competition.

22Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Clean Energy Takes

>> Colorado Group Not Happy With Clean Energy Legislation –Says it does little or nothing to spur renewable energy.
>> The Governor Lays Down a Challenge– Will urge support of Clean Tech Open and entrepreneurs at Monday morning press conference.
>> House Bill 2454: More Than Clean Energy The federal government may soon be telling you what you can and cannot do when it comes to improvements on your home.

19Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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REC Solar, Nestlé Purina Partner on State’s Largest Privately-Owned Solar Installation

The Purina PetCare project is the latest in a series of successes for REC Solar in Colorado. The company says it plans to expand employment by 10 to 20 percent due to the new opportunities for clean energy provided by the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

18May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Ritter Details Plan for ARRA Investments
in Colorado’s New Energy Economy

The ambitious proposal lays out how the GEO will direct $49 million from the Act to create jobs, develop clean energy sources, reduce energy costs for residents and cut emissions of greenhouse gases while injecting the state’s economy with critical investments.

14May2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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We Got Jobbed!

Those who believed that Colorado’s fast-forward approach, under Gov. Bill Ritter, to building a New Energy Economy would translate into extra dollars from the Obama Administration’s energy stimulus plan should be pretty disappointed today. It’s unfortunate that the residents of the state where the President actually signed the energy legislation last month did not fare any better in the stimulus.

31Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Vestas Breaks Ground in Brighton

The two facilities include a wind turbine blade manufacturing process which will employ roughly 650 people, and a nacelle assembly plant with 700 employees, according to the Danish company. Both are expected to be operational in 2010.

25Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Ascent Solar Goes “World” in Thornton

The developer of flexible thin-film solar modules was joined by Governor Ritter and local officials in cutting the ribbon for the company’s new world headquarters.

24Mar2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued