Tag: Solar
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Colorado’s Energy czar touts costliest path to ‘zero carbon’ electricity
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Energy Office Executive Director Will Toor joined a group of “renewable” energy advocates on a press call recently, arguing that Congress should retain Inflation Reduction Act tax credits for wind, solar, and grid-scale batteries, rather than reallocating the funds to other technologies, including nuclear…
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Former Interior secretaries Bernhardt, Norton back Joe O’Dea in Republican US Senate primary
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Two Colorado Republicans who served as secretary of the Interior on Saturday endorsed Joe O’Dea in the GOP primary for the U.S. Senate seat held by Democrat Michael Bennet. Gale Norton, a former state attorney general, and David Bernhardt, an energy and natural resources attorney,…
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IREA switches to CORE, sunny new image
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Intermountain Rural Electric Association, the state’s largest electric cooperative, recently changed its name to CORE. What the press release announcing the new name and branding didn’t mention is the coop leadership agreed to ditch a controversial fee applied to solar users many customers and…
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Xcel gets green light from Colorado for $2.5 billion clean energy plan
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Public Utilities Commission on Monday approved a $2.5 billion plan by Xcel Energy to close coal-fired power plants and add a hefty dose of wind and solar generation so that 55 percent of the utility’s electricity will come from clean energy by 2026.…