Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association alone has been promised $670 million in low-interest loans and other financial assistance…
Author: Allen Best
Allen Best publishes the e-journal Big Pivots, which chronicles the energy transition in Colorado and beyond.
BIG PIVOTS: NREL vs. ‘Drill-Baby-Drill’
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden has 3,675 employees. It’s known around the world…
BIG PIVOTS: Colorado Legislature Looking at Nuclear Energy
The legislative bill this year has more than one sponsor, including two Democrats. It might actually survive its first committee hearing…
White House Cuts Off ‘New ERA’ Funding to Colorado Electric Cooperatives
Will the money eventually arrive? Donald Trump in his first days as president ordered a freeze on distribution of funds…
BIG PIVOTS: How About Those Natural Gas Pipelines?
New natural gas lines are a problem. Will these solutions be a model for Colorado?…
LPEA Primes the ‘Electrification Pump’
“Our rebate program is designed to help offset upfront costs by approximately 10%…”
BIG PIVOTS: An Eddy in the Colorado River
Division had deepened by December when the water buffaloes of the Colorado River Basin assembled in Las Vegas…
BIG PIVOTS: Jimmy Carter and the Colorado Solar Industry
Carter had advanced schooling in nuclear energy, but by 1975 he was thinking about renewables…
BIG PIVOTS: A Conversation with Steve Fenberg, Part Two
“Look, we don’t like this bill. We’re going to fight. What we ask is that you don’t silence us, and you give us some grace, and sometimes that means you give us time to make our case…”
BIG PIVOTS: A Conversation with Steve Fenberg, Part One
Term-limited after eight years, the key legislator talks about his role in helping guide Colorado’s big pivot in energy
BIG PIVOTS: The ‘Switch’ Religious Revival
“My fellow Americans, we need to rally around things upon which we can agree,” he said…
BIG PIVOTS: How to Quit the Carbon Navel Gazing
Auden Schendler, Aspen’s blunt but savvy climate-change warrior, explains the failure of business sustainabiltiy efforts…
BIG PIVOTS: Is Colorado the Beacon on the Hill? Part Four
“Is it perfect? No. Are we perfect? No, but they are a leader. They’re showing how you just do it…”
BIG PIVOTS: Is Colorado the Beacon on the Hill? Part Three
“There’s still a lot of discovery, imagination and innovation that needs to happen….”
BIG PIVOTS: Is Colorado the Beacon on the Hill? Part Two
Will Toor, director of the Colorado Energy Office, made the case that Colorado has been providing a model that can be used by other states…
BIG PIVOTS: Is Colorado the Beacon on the Hill? Part One
Will Colorado’s big pivot in energy provide a model for other states? Or are we just full of ourselves?
BIG PIVOTS: Colorado’s Decarbonization Will Continue Despite Trump Triumph
DC will be very different in January. But Colorado has strong momentum on its emissions-reduction journey…
BIG PIVOTS: LPEA Will Continue to Get Power from Tri-State After 2026 Exit
LPEA in September announced an agreement with Mercuria Energy America, a power wholesaler based in Houston, which is to be the cooperative’s major supplier of electricity…