ENERGY - Issue Papers - Independence Institute

Colorado Energy Office’s Economic Hindenburg: The Ballooning Costs of the Hydrogen Transition 0
- June 29, 2024
In October 2023, the Biden Administration awarded $7 billion of taxpayer dollars to kickstart the development of regional hydrogen hubs. These hydrogen hubs will independently explore new ways to lower the cost of producing so-called clean hydrogen and find new and innovative uses for hydrogen fuel. While Colorado’s proposal for a Western Interstate Hydrogen Hub
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Colorado’s Energy Future: The High Cost of 100 Percent Electric Vehicles 0
- September 29, 2023
In August 2022, California became the first jurisdiction anywhere in the world to ban the sale of gas-powered vehicles, setting a deadline of 2035 to phase them out completely. Just one week later, the state was forced to call on its residents to avoid charging their electric vehicles because the state’s grid was at imminent
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Colorado’s Energy Future: The High Cost of 100 Percent Electric Home Heating 0
- August 15, 2023
What began as a first-of-its-kind ban on new natural gas hookups in 2019 in Berkeley, California, has turned into a nationwide movement. To date, more than 100 cities plus the state of New York have since passed gas bans of their own to push their citizens toward electrification. It has even begun to spread in
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Colorado’s Energy Future: The High Cost of 100% Renewable Electricity by 2040 0
- May 15, 2023
Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D.) campaigned for his first term in office on a platform of transitioning the state to 100 percent renewable energy by 2040. In his first year in office, Polis unveiled an official government “roadmap” to do just that. Since then, he has signed into law no fewer than 55 climate bills
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