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SB 178: sordid tale to increase renewable mandate 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Governing Bodies / Agencies, ENERGY - Legal
- April 28, 2012
“One hundred nine days into a 120-day session you introduced major [energy policy] legislation,” Senator Steve King (R-Grand Junction) skeptically asked of SB 178 sponsor Senator Angela Giron (D-Pueblo). Sen. King’s skepticism is justified because SB 178 is a significant policy change that increases Colorado’s renewable energy mandate by 20 percent. Because renewable energy is
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Baker out at PUC 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Legal
- March 31, 2012
Public Utilities Commissioner Matt Baker is leaving the PUC to join the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a left-leaning non-profit, as “an officer in its Environment Program” foundation officials announced yesterday. Former Governor Bill Ritter appointed the environmental activist Baker in 2008, and his term had expired without current Governor John Hickenlooper acting to reappoint
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EPA bans construction of new coal plants 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Legal
- March 27, 2012
Today, the EPA announced new limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. For once, industry and environmental groups are in agreement: these new limits, they say, will effectively ban the construction of new coal plants. As Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, put it, the new limits mark the “end of an
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Pat Stryker waiting for more taxpayer money to fund Abound 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Legal
- March 20, 2012
Leftist billionaire heiress Pat Stryker is waiting to see if taxpayers via the Department of Energy (DOE) will throw another $10 million at Stryker’s failed thin-filmed solar panel manufacturer Abound Solar before she puts any more of her own money into the Colorado-based company reports Eric Wesoff of GreenTech Media: The firm awaits $10 million from the
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Two decades is long enough for wind tax credit 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Legal
- March 4, 2012
If we had our way, there would be no tax subsidies of any kind for any energy resource. Since the wind production tax credit (PTC) is what’s currently being debated in Congress and on editorial pages across Colorado, we’ll address it. Below is our column that appeared originally in the Pueblo Chieftain on Sunday, March
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How much of your energy bill pays for Xcel's marketing?0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Legal
- February 20, 2012
There’s a good question to which ratepayers will never get an answer because Xcel Energy is an investor owned utility (IOU) that enjoys a government-sanctioned monopoly on providing electric service to roughly 1.4 million Colorado ratepayers. Because it is not a state agency, Colorado’s largest electricity provider is not subject to the state’s open record law.
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