All Posts Tagged With: "Holy Cross Energy"
Pitkin County Says No to Community Solar Initiative
The Rifle PV array aside, Pitkin County Commissioners continued their arcane policy of not allowing homeowners to invest in a community solar farm with its decision last week. Aspen may do the same.
21Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Energy and the Bleak West Slope Economy
The region has yet to recover from the 2009 double whammy of the oil and gas downturn coupled with the national economic meltdown. Too many unemployed workers continue to chase too few jobs. In Garfield County, however, clean energy development offers a glimmer of hope.
4Apr2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Western Slope UPDATES
>> Holy Cross May Tap Methane Gas From Mines
>> Solar Battle Brews at Garfield County Airport
>> Garfield County Wants Antero, Critics to Compromise
>> Oil and Gas Permitting Drops in Moffat County
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
First Community-Owned Solar Garden Launches in Roaring Fork Valley
The organization behind the effort is Clean Energy Collective
of Carbondale, and it is the first of several sites the startup has in the works. CEC has developed a model for enabling a community to collectively own a clean energy facility—solar, wind, biomass, micro hydro— and directly reap the benefits.
Solar Gardens Gain on Legislative and Co-op Fronts
Gov. Ritter’s signing a few days ago of HB 1342 is a legislative move to enable renters and others who are unable to install solar panels on their own roofs to join forces and create community “solar gardens.” Clean Energy Collective, a private company on the West Slope, is making news with its own approach.
10Jun2010 | admin | 3 comments | Continued
Energy and Politics on the West Slope
It’s the latest move from Holy Cross Energy’s Turnbull that some observers say demonstrates a larger co-op culture that guards the status quo against any significant moves toward more environmentally friendly power generation.
8Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
Electric Co-ops May be Legally Obligated to Divulge Coal Risks Says Energy Attorney
Two state co-ops — the Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA) on the Front Range and Holy Cross Energy on the Western Slope — invested $366 million and $100 million respectively in Xcel Energy’s new Comanche 3 coal-fired plant near Pueblo. Both co-ops have publicly stated they did so to procure a cheap, stable base load.
3Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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