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…
Author: Allen Best
Allen Best publishes the e-journal Big Pivots, which chronicles the energy transition in Colorado and beyond.
BIG PIVOTS: A Crazy, Upside-Down World
Will Toor, the director of the Colorado Energy Office, is making some point to Jennifer Granholm, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy…
BIG PIVOTS: What Does the Election Mean for Colorado’s Energy Plans?
Some reason to believe that Colorado can continue to mostly chug along. But then there’s the issue of tariffs…
BIG PIVOTS: Time to Say ‘No’ to Electric Rate Increases?
Pueblo and Canon City already have lower incomes but the highest electric rates in Colorado. Pueblo mayor calls utility predatory…
BIG PIVOTS: Preparing for Curtailed Diversions from the Colorado River? Part Two
Even relatively healthy snowfalls don’t necessarily produce robust volumes of runoff…
BIG PIVOTS: Preparing for Curtailed Diversions from the Colorado River? Part One
“We take the position that we are not the cause of trending lower flows over the past 20 years,” said Jason Ullman, the state water engineer…
Kit Carson Leading the Way to Green Hydrogen?
As a boy in northern New Mexico, Luis Reyes Jr. thought he might someday work at a molybdenum mine in Questa…
BIG PIVOTS: Can Colorado Actually Reduce ‘Vehicle Miles Traveled’?
Per capita, Colorado drives — a lot. What will it take to ratchet this down — and our emissions, too?…
BIG PIVOTS: Vestas Announces New Generation of Wind Turbines
Vestas, the world’s largest manufacturer of wind products, has invested more than $1 billion in Colorado…
Colorado Sees Continued Growth in Electric Vehicle Sales
Colorado lags only California in sales in second quarter of 2024. It bucks national trends. But can this momentum be sustained?
BIG PIVOTS: Agrivoltaics in Our Future, Part One
Many solar developers submit proposals to northern Colorado jurisdiction with explicit plans for agricultural production…
We Have Heat Pumps. Who Will Install Them?
“My goal is to help build out a diverse and robust workforce. There are two parts. One is thinking about the next generation. How do we bring new workers to this type of work?”
BIG PIVOTS: A Colorado City Riled Up About Black Hills Energy
“If you want to strangle this part of the state, that’s what you do, just keep increasing the cost of electricity,” she said…
Colorado Can Achieve Its 2030 Clean Energy Goals… by 2031
The Colorado Energy Office expects more than 10,000 e-bike purchases in 2024 as a result of a new $450 point-of-sale discount…
BIG PIVOTS: The Winds of (Climate) Change
Wind whooshed, whipped and wailed through Boulder County for much of April’s first weekend…
BIG PIVOTS: The Electricity Problem in the San Luis Valley
In the wired world of the 21st century, Colorado’s San Luis Valley has an Achilles’s heel…
BIG PIVOTS: Geothermal Seeds, Sprinkled Across Colorado, Part One
Geothermal grants totaling $7.7 million to 35 projects seek to push along efforts. What role will this have in the energy transition?
BIG PIVOTS: Outrage in Coal Country
Wyoming politicos were furious, some enviros elated. But the Biden administration decision about Powder River coal leasing had no real consequences…
BIG PIVOTS: Mysteries of a Disappearing Snowpack, Part Two
“You’re trying to predict the future based on how conditions played with each other in the past,” explains Osenga…