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The Great Solar Rip-Off: By the Numbers0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive
- April 23, 2013
According to Xcel Energy’s regulatory filings, the utility spent $275 million in ratepayer subsidies for customer-sited solar panel systems from 2008-2012.* That breaks down to: $196 Cost of these solar subsidies for each of Xcel Energy’s 1.4 million Colorado customers. .7% Percentage of Xcel Energy customers (approximately 9,200) that benefit from lower electricity rates by
READ MOREHighlights and lowlights of SB252 testimony0
- Energy, ENERGY - Legal, ENERGY - Renewable Energy
- April 9, 2013
Despite close to seven hours of testimony on SB13-252, a bill to raise the renewable energy mandate 150 percent on rural electric co-ops, it is very clear that the bill’s prime sponsors Senate President John Morse (D-Colorado Springs) and Senator Gail Schwartz (D-Snowmass) do not understand their own bill and didn’t bother to consult those
READ MOREDenver centric eco-left targets rural Colorado0
- Energy, ENERGY - Legal, ENERGY - Renewable Energy
- April 7, 2013
Denver area eco-leftists have rural Colorado in their sights. In a September 2012 letter to state legislative candidates, Colorado Environmental Coalition Executive Director Elise Jones (now Boulder County Commissioner) and Colorado Conservation Voters Executive Director Pete Maysmith implied that dirty air in the Denver metro area may be the result of rural Colorado’s not having
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Colorado Hydro Fails to Put the “New” in Renewable0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Renewable Energy
- April 2, 2013
By Brandon Ratterman Colorado is having trouble defining hydroelectricity. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers it to be a renewable resource, and the Colorado Energy Office calculates hydroelectric power’s emission rate as equal to wind and solar. Despite these two distinctions, Colorado’s renewable energy standard defines hydroelectricity as renewable only if the generating facility is
READ MOREVictory for Transparency: Feeding at DOE’s public trough a little less appetizing0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Legal, ENERGY - Renewable Energy
- March 22, 2013
For the last two and half years, the Independence Institute along with other free market energy policy advocates have pounded the drum of transparency and exposed the federal government’s infamous Department of Energy (DOE) loan guarantee program that rewarded the politically well-connected while costing taxpayers billions of dollars with high profile bankruptcies such as Solyndra
READ MOREEco-left prepares to double down on renewable mandate0
- Energy, ENERGY - Archive, ENERGY - Governing Bodies / Agencies, ENERGY - Legal
- March 14, 2013
By Peter Blake This column appeared originally on Complete Colorado Page 2. When the runners are closing in on the finish line, move the tape farther back. That’s the usual strategy employed by greens when it comes to establishing renewable energy standards for electricity production. It’s a marathon that never ends, and the added cost
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