All Posts Tagged With: "Governor’s Energy Office"
Build It and They Will Come! Colorado Boom State for Energy Star-Qualified New Homes
Nearly 45% of new homes built here during the first half of 2010 were ENERGY STAR qualified, according to just released data from the GEO and Environmental Protection Agency. Clearly, dwellings designed and built to earn the ENERGY STAR label have got BLING!
17Sep2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Ritter Announces Acceleration of Small Hydro Projects In Colorado
Surveys have found that Colorado has several hundred sites with a potential of 5 megawatts or less, with a combined generating capacity of more than 1,400 megawatts. The lengthy permitting process, however, has prevented many projects from moving forward.
25Aug2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
GEO’s 2010 Utilities Report for Colorado
an Eye-Opener
The report provides an in-depth description of the state’s sprawling utility marketplace, including individual profiles of all 65 utilities, with a breakdown of their generation fuel mix, incentives for energy efficiency and renewable energy, governance structure, customer split and more.
6Aug2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Electric Cooperatives Join in Solar-Hydropower Study
Holy Cross Energy, Fort Collins Light and Power and the San Luis Valley Rural Electric Cooperative will partner to quantify the economic effects on power providers from linking rooftop solar energy and small hydropower plants into the grid.
20Jul2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
State Gets Close to $1M for Weatherization Job Training
The Colorado Governor’s Energy Office is receiving $963,000 in federal stimulus funds to expand weatherization training programs and establish a new training center in Denver. It is a partnership among the GEO, Saturn Resources Management, Red Rocks Community College and Pueblo CC.
7Jun2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
CCIA Gets $80K in Funding to Develop Cleantech Roadmap for Colorado
The intention is for the state plan to provide stakeholders with a detailed view into the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to Colorado’s internationally recognized cleantech cluster, while offering a 3-5 year actionable road map to continue expansion of the cleantech cluster.
3Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Commentary: State Energy Program Based
on Flawed Subsidies
The goals are laudable enough, but this program is a hugely flawed subsidy program that distorts the true cost of energy in the marketplace. NEED smacks of technocratic elitism, giving bureaucrats the task of picking winners and losers through centralized economic planning
30Apr2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
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
‘RECHARGE COLORADO’ Consumer Rebate Program Set to Launch April 19th
“Recharge Colorado brings the incentives offered by utilities and local governments across Colorado to a single place, creating a one-stop clearinghouse of information and resources regarding products, rebates, tax breaks and other benefits,” says the GEO’s Tom Plant.
7Apr2010 | admin | 1 comment | Continued
GEO Launches Statewide Consumer Rebate
Program April 19th
It has taken a few weeks longer than originally planned, but the Governor’s Energy Office and partners are finally prepared to launch a sweeping, statewide rebate program next month designed to bring energy efficiency and renewable energy to tens of thousands of Coloradans.
17Mar2010 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
GEO Funds Northern Colorado ENERGY STAR Program
NoCO ENERGY STAR Homes is a regional program with a focus on high-performance construction for new homes — homes that perform better than conventionally built homes.
10Feb2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
A Look at the Upcoming Recovery Act New Energy Grants
Beginning this month, the energy office is posting a wide variety of grant opportunities designed to increase the energy efficiency of homes, schools and other buildings as well as increase the supply of energy from renewable resources and clean-burning natural gas.
26Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
The Colorado Energy News INTERVIEW:
Tom Plant of the Governor’s Energy Office
In the wake of Governor Ritter’s announcement that he won’t be seeking a second term, we go one-on-one with the head of the state’s point organization for the new energy economy. Get an up-close view of Tom’s thinking on a number of issues and what’s on the GEO agenda for 2010 in this Q&A.
26Jan2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
We need to promote export terminals to liquify and ship natural gas to markets in Asia and Euroupe. The US ...
Natural Gas can be consumed so efficiently that the WATER can even be recovered from the combusted exhaust gases.
Going ...
Lack of funding is a serious obstacle for implementation of audit recommendations. Even small rebates will have little impact ...
Re: Natural gas generation wasn’t included in the final analysis but is generally assumed to emit about half as much ...
Disclosure MIGHT prevent pollution if there was a watchdog agency that ruled yes or no on particular chemicals before they ...
Having just read Tom Gray's article 'Fred Udo's bogus numbers' I get the feeling I haven't understood whats going on. ...
I agree with you kirsch. I knew this article had the stench of industry money as soon add I read ...
Can someone explain how disclosure prevents pollution? They can still release air toxins and they are still not held ...