With U.S. Senator from Colorado Mark Udall Wednesday unveiling the SUN Act, a bill that would extend solar incentives to group-owned solar installations, the community solar garden concept has gone from relative obscurity in to legislative darling in just a matter of months.
Colorado House Bill 1001would increase electric utilities' renewable energy portfolio standard to 30 percent by 2020.
Innovative ownership model would open solar up to previously-alienated renters and homeowners. Colorado State Representative Claire Levy (D-Boulder) is planning on introducing a bill this session that would legalize community “solar gardens”, allowing renters, condo owners, or people who live in otherwise unsuitable locations for solar, to take advantage of local solar incentives and take part [...]
A U.S. District Court Judge awarded a preliminary injunction against a Canadian mining company, barring it from drilling and any other activities related to oil and gas exploration on the 79,000-acre Baca Wildlife Refuge in southwest Colorado.
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Smoke from the eight fires burning in California right now has made its way east of the Continental Divide and down into Colorado's Front Range cities of Denver, Boulder and Fort Collins.
Tri-State Generation, the supplier of electricity for 44 electric cooperatives in Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming and Nebraska announced Monday it will purchase the power generated at a new 51 megawatt wind farm to be constructed in eastern Colorado.
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A Colorado family is more than a bit concerned with the flammable water that now comes from their taps. Amee Ellsworth of Hudson can turn on a faucet in her kitchen or bathroom, light a match and watch as flames shoot out because natural gas from nearby wells have seeped into her groundwater supply. Officials from the [...]
Speaking in Denver, Colorado Governor Bill Ritter said preliminary figures from a new report show that renewable energy has generated about 90,000 jobs directly and indirectly in Colorado. Addressing attendees of the second annual Colorado New Energy Economy Conference, Ritter said that Jefferson County alone has about 500 renewable energy companies. The Governor cited the wind [...]
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter on Tuesday announced the first recipients of $10 million in grants under the “New Energy Communities Initiative.” Ritter said the 14 projects will stimulate economic growth, create new jobs, enhance sustainability and lead to more livable communities all across Colorado. Gov. Ritter made the announcement Tuesday morning during a keynote address at [...]
Geologists estimate that there are 800 billion barrels of oil locked away in the shale rocks of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. But there are some serious obstacles to unlocking that oil, not the least of which are the formidable political forces that oppose oil shale development. If you want to learn more, there was an [...]
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