Power struggle: Colorado’s largest electric co-op split over renewable energy

A coup attempt by radical greenies or a long-overdue transition to a more environmentally balanced, 21st-century energy policy?

Depending on who you talk to, that’s the way the debate is being framed as Colorado’s largest rural electric co-op, the Intermountain Rural Electric Association (IREA), faces one of the most critical — and contentious — board elections in recent memory.