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  • Big Wind and Solar Oppose Clean Energy0

    • February 13, 2015

    By Lexi Osborn In the upcoming weeks, House Bill 1118 will be up for debate in the State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee. This bill eliminates the restrictions on the hydroelectricity and pumped hydroelectricity that can be counted as a “renewable energy resource” to meet Colorado’s renewable energy standard. Currently, hydroelectricity is only counted towards

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  • Legislative Preview: 2014 Energy Bills0

    • January 24, 2014

    Current through January 24, 2014 Reform defeated: SB14-035 Renewable Energy Standard Repeal *postponed indefinitely* Senate Bill 35, introduced by State Sen. Ted Harvey, would have repealed “substantially all of the provision enacted by Senate Bill 13-252” by returning the renewable portfolio standard to 10 percent from 20 percent for rural cooperative electric associations, among other

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  • Why won’t Colorado eco-left consider hydropower renewable?0

    • May 13, 2013

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers hydropower to be a renewable energy source. The Colorado Energy Office (CEO) calculates that carbon emissions from hydroelectric power are on par with wind and solar energy. Last Thursday, Daniel Weiss of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a leftist non-profit organization, testified in front of the U.S. House

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  • Why won't Colorado eco-left consider hydropower renewable?0

    • May 13, 2013

    The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers hydropower to be a renewable energy source. The Colorado Energy Office (CEO) calculates that carbon emissions from hydroelectric power are on par with wind and solar energy. Last Thursday, Daniel Weiss of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a leftist non-profit organization, testified in front of the U.S. House

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  • Colorado Hydro Fails to Put the “New” in Renewable0

    • 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

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  • Oregon’s Cannibalism of Environmentalism0

    • April 1, 2013

    By Brandon Ratterman Almost 60 percent of Oregon’s electricity is generated from hydroelectric power, which is considered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a renewable energy resource. However, the state is struggling to meet the mandated renewable portfolio standard (RPS) of 15 percent renewable generation by 2015, as hydroelectricity generated at facilities built before

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