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Minus Lamborn, Colorado congressional delegation pushes for wind energy tax credit

By | 02.08.12 | 1:02 pm

Eight of Colorado’s nine congressional delegates are calling for the extension of the federal wind production tax credit to be added to the nation’s pending payroll tax reduction package.

Xcel Energy blasts Boulder’s utility plan, questioning costs associated with 2B, 2C

By | 11.02.11 | 7:01 pm

Xcel Energy officials late this afternoon expressed disappointment over Boulder’s move to create its own municipal electric utility, continuing to cast doubt on the city’s cost projections.

Solar power plants in the Mojave Desert. Photo: Worklife Siemens, Flickr.

Researchers developing generator-sized solar batteries

By | 06.28.11 | 8:35 am

The St. Petersburg Times reported this weekend on efforts by researchers at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg to develop generator-sized batteries that can store power from solar panels.

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Udall-Giffords Security Act would bolster military drive to go green

By | 06.08.11 | 4:50 pm

Colorado U.S. Senator Mark Udall Wednesday unveiled an updated version of the Energy Security Act he worked with Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to introduce last year. The bill aims to boost increasing military efforts to move away from dependence on fossil fuels.

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Pew report: U.S. drops to third in clean energy investment

By | 03.29.11 | 12:51 pm

The United States in 2010 slipped to third in the world in the amount of private capital invested in the clean energy sector, according to a recent report by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The U.S. saw $34 billion in private equity invested in the sector last year, a 51 percent jump from 2009, but China received $54.4 billion, increasing the lead it’s held over the U.S. since 2008. Germany last year passed the U.S. with $41.2 billion invested in clean energy.

The campaign for the board of the Intermountain Rural Electric Association is getting increasingly heated.

State’s largest electric co-op sees heated election debate on climate change, renewables

By | 03.23.11 | 11:00 am

Mike Kempe has been an embattled figure on the board of the Intermountain Rural Electric Association the last four years. He’s arguably the only green-minded board member for a rural electric co-op famous for casting doubt on climate-change science and tenaciously resisting former Gov. Bill Ritter’s “New Energy Economy.”

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Bipartisan phone survey: Majority of Westerners prefer renewable energy

By | 02.24.11 | 3:06 pm

A phone survey of 2,200 registered voters in five western states, including 600 in Colorado, found that a majority of western voters think the amount of their state’s electricity being produced by renewable energy sources should “dramatically increase,” even if it means paying more on their utility bill.

Hickenlooper names wind energy executive as new head of GEO

By | 01.01.11 | 10:02 am

The administration of governor-elect John Hickenlooper Friday named Denver-based wind energy executive Tanuj “TJ” Deora the new director of the Governor’s Energy Office, created by Gov. Bill Ritter in 2007 to facilitate the state’s burgeoning “New Energy Economy.”

Boulderites launch 2B campaign to replace city revenue, explore clean energy options

By | 09.20.10 | 8:54 am

Citizens for Boulder’s Clean Energy Future launched the YES on 2B Campaign over the weekend with a party at the Ribhouse in Boulder, where attendees learned about a complicated ballot measure facing voters in November.

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Markey gets award from farming group Cory Gardner belongs to

By | 09.15.10 | 11:07 am

The Colorado Independent got a press release today from Democratic Congresswoman Betsy Markey announcing that she had won the 2010 Golden Triangle Award from the National Farmers Union “for demonstrating leadership on issues relevant to America’s family farmers, ranchers and…