Entries Tagged 'Renewable energy' ↓

Four counties in Colorado — Boulder, Eagle, Gunnison and Pitkin — have approved the creation of a special district for installing solar-power systems, but La Plata County officials decided yesterday not to pursue a similar plan, the Durango Herald reports.

Aspen has asked for an exemption from a full federal environmental review of its proposal to build a 1.05-megawatt hydroelectric power plant, which would draw water from Castle and Maroon creeks to generate electricity, but the exemption request isn’t sitting well with some residents, the Denver Post reports.

Greeley received an $82,000 grant from Colorado to build a clean-energy park, which will eventually turn animal waste into power for a cheese factory and other businesses, the Associated Press reports.

With the Senate announcing tomorrow that it will begin debate on a comprehensive clean energy bill, a coalition of groups has come to together to urge Sens. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) to support the bill. The group includes Aspen Skiing Co., VoteVets and Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership. The groups maintain that it is almost certain that Colorado will come out a clean energy jobs winner from such legislation and passing the legislation would increase national security by reducing dependence on foreign oil and preserve some of Colorado’s most important species and habitats.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will meet Thursday with federal and Colorado officials to discuss clean energy at a summit in Ft. Collins, the Associated Press reports.

A start-up company co-founded by a Colorado State University professor is making biofuel by nourishing algae with carbon dioxide emissions from a natural gas processing plant on the Southern Ute Indian reservation in southwest Colorado, the New York Times reports.