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Wind energy group cites state renewable standards for huge spike in capacity

By | 01.26.10 | 12:50 pm

Clearly, renewable energy standards (RES) – adopted by nearly 30 states, including Colorado – work. That’s the message at least that’s coming from the American Wind Energy Association, according to the New York Times.

Ritter praises Xcel for dropping solar-array surcharge to pay for transmission lines

By | 08.04.09 | 2:56 pm

Gov. Bill Ritter Tuesday praised Xcel Energy for pulling back its plan to charge homes and small businesses with solar arrays a surcharge to help the company defray the costs of building new transmission lines.

As Xcel continues to be…

Scanlan hopes to whip up beetle-mania inside Beltway

By | 02.23.09 | 9:03 am

State House Majority Whip Christine Scanlan, D-Dillon, is whipping up a little beetle-mania this week in Washington, ratcheting up the rhetoric in the war for more money to battle the bug that won the West.