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Audit confirms our findings: mismanagement in state energy office 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Legal
- January 29, 2013
A 2011 Independence Institute paper was the first to suggest that the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) needed a serious dose of transparency due to its inability to clarify how it spent millions of dollars of taxpayer money. Colorado’s State Auditor validated our findings in a recently released audit. Colorado’s Office of the State Auditor blasted
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2012 snapshot of New Energy Economy's cost to ratepayers 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Legal
- January 21, 2013
The numbers are in, and they aren’t pretty. Four of the largest cost driving pieces of legislation enabling Colorado’s New Energy Economy cost Xcel Energy ratepayers nearly half a billion dollars in 2012 alone. Adding insult to injury, some of the electricity produced wasn’t needed in the first place according to a just released report
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2012 snapshot of New Energy Economy’s cost to ratepayers 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Legal
- January 21, 2013
The numbers are in, and they aren’t pretty. Four of the largest cost driving pieces of legislation enabling Colorado’s New Energy Economy cost Xcel Energy ratepayers nearly half a billion dollars in 2012 alone. Adding insult to injury, some of the electricity produced wasn’t needed in the first place according to a just released report
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No such thing as a free lunch or free energy 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Legal
- October 30, 2012
The Independence Institute’s Todd Shepherd, along with this blog, have spent two years covering, and ultimately exposing, what is now the Abound Solar scandal. Understandably, much of the focus is now on Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck’s criminal investigation as well as a Congressional Oversight Committee inquiry into the bankrupt solar panel manufacturer. Recently
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Spookiness at the DOE 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Legal
- October 12, 2012
Instead of figuring out what happened to your tax dollars with the bankrupt Colorado-based Abound Solar (leaving that to Congress and the Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck), the Department of Energy continues to be the PR firm for the Big Green agenda by promoting energy themed pumpkin carving patterns. Give them credit for including nuclear, but
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CO Green dream proves nightmare for taxpayers 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Legal
- July 3, 2012
GIGAOM reports that, as of last week, General Electric is putting on hold its plan to be a major solar panel manufacturer in Colorado. According to the self-described emerging technology blog GIGAOM: General Electric was set to become a major solar manufacturer when it announced a 400 MW factory in Colorado last year. Over a
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