Utilities: What Walmart’s Power Plans Say About Your Future (It’s Scary!)
At first glance, the Walmart press release sounds like just another greenwashing announcement bragging about the things the company will do to improve the environment.By Jesse Berst,...
View ArticleKey Week for Proposed Power Line
DENVER — The company behind a proposed $3 billion power line that would run through Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Nevada expects a key document to be released this week. TransWest Express is part of the...
View ArticleNew FERC Chairman May Favor Renewables and Smart Grid, But Hurt Coal
By Jesse Berst President Barack Obama has nominated the former head of Colorado’s Public Utilities Commission to chair the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Ronald Binz headed the Colorado PUC from...
View ArticleAdvocates Urge Colorado Regulators to Reject Xcel Energy’s Proposal
Renewable energy advocates, businesses and environmental groups joined together to urge the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to reject a new proposal from Xcel Energy that would discourage rooftop...
View ArticleColorado Coal Production Hit By Soft Market
Colorado coal production was down 20 percent for the first six months of this year compared with the same period last year after the industry took a financial hit because of a soft market and a fire at...
View ArticleXcel Energy’s Net Metering Plan Sent to Administrative Judge
The ongoing battle over Xcel Energy’s net metering plan is now in the hands of an administrative law judge for a hearing after the Colorado PUC referred it to the judiciary system. The state’s largest...
View ArticleState PUC Pulls Net Metering Out of Xcel’s Renewable Energy Standard
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission agreed this week to pull net metering out of Xcel’s Renewable Energy Standard compliance plan and conduct a separate process on the costs and benefits of net...
View ArticleCLEER, CORE Help West Slope Co-op Save Energy
CLEER, CORE, and Walking Mountains Science Center help Holy Cross Energy achieve significant savings goal to wrap up 2013 by Cameron M. Burns, CLEER A four-month fall/winter 2013 Holy Cross Energy...
View ArticleThe U.S. Grid is the Worst in the Industrialized World (outages are up 285%!)
Power outages in the United States are up an astonishing 285% since 1984. The U.S. ranks last among the top nine Western industrialized nations in the average length of outages. That dismal performance...
View ArticleCommentary: Xcel Energy: Swiftboating for Solar
By Brian Holton Henderson/Huffington Post Blogger Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest investor-owned utility, is attacking net metering once again. Rather than pay solar customers full, fair credit for the...
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