All Posts Tagged With: "Tom Plant"
City of Englewood, Ameresco Partner on New Solar Initiative
Commenting on the project, the GEO’s Tom Plant said, “This is an excellent example of a public/private partnership where a town is able to upgrade its energy infrastructure, reduce its long-term operating costs and have a beneficial effect on the environment.”
11Nov2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedGEO’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 | ContinuedGeo Weatherization Partners Surpass 5,000 Homes
For The Year
The program has already exceeded last year’s production by more than 1,500 homes. “We congratulate our partner agencies across Colorado for rising to the call to extend these services to more homes, more families and bring more workers into our New Energy Economy,” said GEO director Tom Plant.
15Jun2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedRecapping the Recharge Colorado
Rebates Program
The site recorded more than 30,000 visits in its first day, and three days into the Recharge Colorado launch, the public had reserved more than 20,000 rebates for ENERGY STAR appliances, furnaces, hot water heaters, insulation and solar power.
28Apr2010 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedRitter Signs Green Legislation at Alliance Center
SB 75, the Low Speed Electric self-propelled vehicles bill, allows wider use of neighborhood electric vehicles; HB 1298, the “Green Truck” bill, provides green economic development incentives for Colorado’s trucking industry; and HB 1331 gives an income tax credit for hybrids and alternative fuel vehicles.
4Jun2009 | admin | 1 comment | ContinuedColorado Homebuilder Associations Partner with GEO in Push for Energy-Efficient New Homes
New efforts teaming the GEO and its regional partners for 2009 include more training programs, rebates and mortgage interest rate discounts designed to increase construction of new homes that meet the standards for the EPA’s ENERGY STAR label.
8Apr2009 | admin | 0 comments | ContinuedWe 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
