A small Colorado pivot in our great national energy transition
Should electrical co-operative providers be allowed to produce more than 5 percent of their electrical from local and mostly renewable sources? A Colorado case has implications for our great national...
View ArticleInching along toward renewables in mountain towns
Crested Butte and Breckenridge examine goals of 100 percent renewables, and Kit Carson Electric moves along toward the same goal with another solar farm. Continue reading → The post Inching along...
View ArticleLa Plata Electric evaluating its energy options
The business model for Tri-State Generation & Transmission is in the cross-hairs as Durango-based La Plata Electric Association studies its long-term options. Continue reading → The post La Plata...
View ArticleA time of inflection for rural America’s energy paradigms
Kansas last year finally awarded a permit for a coal-fired power plant to serve customers in Colorado mountain towns and elsewhere, but it will never get built. As twilight arrives in the era of large,...
View ArticleWill co-ops in southwestern Colorado stay with Tri-State?
Tri-State Generation & Transmission boasts of having the most solar generation of any G&T in the United States. But whether it’s shifting to renewables adn allow enough local generation has...
View ArticleAnother solar farm on the renewable wall
Taos-based Kit Carson Electric in July began production from a solar farm near the Angle Fire ski area in northern New Mexico. Financed by Guzman Energy, the co-operative is pushing toward a goal of...
View ArticleWhy the excitement about accelerating changes in energy
In Colorado, Paonia remains a coal town, even if several mines have shut down. But those gathered at the Engage energy conference recently were looking to a future beyond coal. Many innovations are...
View ArticleHow can this Colorado coal town reinvent itself?
Craig, Colo., has made a decent living mining and burning coal for 40 years. What will happen when those coal plants close? How will Craig reinvent itself? There are no easy answers. Read more
View ArticleGetting to 100% renewable energy
To get to 100% renewables for electrical production won’t be as simple as going to the wind and solar shelf and stocking up. That can get utilities to 50% easily enough, perhaps even 70% or 80%,...
View ArticleWindy enough in Dust Bowl land
Southeastern Colorado has wind aplenty, almost enough to power the entire state. But that wind is like a farm without a road to market. Why that may change. Read more
View ArticleCoal and the hope of carbon capture
Wyoming continues to hope that coal can be burned without producing emissions, a technology proven at smaller scale but expensive. Others in Colorado and New Mexico also have an interest. Read more
View ArticleA power switch in Colorado
Delta-Montrose Electric splits the sheets with Tri-State Generation and Transmission. Will others follow?
View ArticleThe cost of leaving Tri-State G&T
United Power would pay $234.8 million to leave Tri-State Generation & Transmission under a methodology recommended by an administrative law judge to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.
View ArticleColorado’s decarbonization roadmap*
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis ran on a platform of a rapid decarbonization of electricity. Environmental groups say his administration isn't moving quickly enough.
View ArticleElectrical empires in Colorado
Xcel Energy and Tri-State G&T both are resisting losing chunks of their electrical empires in Colorado. Their nimbleness is at issue—and money, too.
View ArticleA new era for Tri-State
Colorado's second biggest electrical utility will soon identify its path to 80% reduced emissions by 2030. Surely this map will include Arizona and Wyoming.
View ArticleLocal electricity in Gunnison County
Gunnison County Electric has started the process of adding local generation of electrical resources. It's less than 1% now, but it can get up to 7%.
View ArticleWyoming seeks to stall Colorado’s exit from coal-generated electricity
Wyoming legislators take aim at Colorado's decarbonization with a $1.2 million legal fund. The nexus for this potential lawsuit will be Laramie River Station.
View ArticleTransmission enough for Crossing Trails, but what about additional wind &...
Tri-State members have begun getting power from a new wind farm in eastern Colorado. But as to future wind farms as Tri-State decarbonizes? Much to answer here.
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