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GOP Candidate for Colorado Gov. Very Confused About Renewable Energy Requirement
After his memory is refreshed about the origins of the state Renewable Energy Standard, Maes seems to come full circle, or at least hedge his bets to the hilt, on his renewable energy policy position

Plagiarizing Colorado GOP Gubernatorial Candidate McInnis Says He’s ‘In it to win it.’
Republican candidate for Colorado Governor Scott McInnis said on his Facebook page on Thursday that he is “in it to win it” and has no plans to quit the race for governor despite revelations that he had plagiarized several pages of water policy writing as part of a paid research fellowship in 2005 and 2006.

Colorado Governor Signs Community Solar Gardens Act into Law
Colorado will now join several other U.S. states where community solar garden laws allows groups of individuals to collectively own a solar array and cash-in on potential benefits from the state’s net-metering laws and tariffs.

Community Solar Gardens Explained
Solar Gardens are sprouting up everywhere as social networks become solar networks.

Community Solar Garden Idea Sprouts in Senate
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 Considering 30% Renewable Energy Requirement
Colorado House Bill 1001would increase electric utilities’ renewable energy portfolio standard to 30 percent by 2020.

Colorado May Consider ‘Community Solar Gardens’ Law
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 [...]

Judge Blocks Drilling in Colorado Wildlife Refuge
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 California Fires Settles into Colorado [pics]
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 to Purchase Colorado Wind Energy (Finally)
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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