Instability of sustainability: green agenda ignores science and technology

by amy | 6:37 pm, March 31, 2013

Could this happen in Colorado? Maybe…
A Wall Street Journal article reports what some in Colorado’s energy industry know, too much reliance on wind and solar can make an electric grid unstable and lead to power outages.
California regulators and energy companies met last week out of fear that the state’s electric grid is so unstable due [...]

Country can breathe sigh of relief. We’re still stuck with him…

by amy | 7:21 pm, March 4, 2013

By William Yeatman and Amy Oliver Cooke
As Coloradans we thought we might have to apologize to the rest of the country if President Barack Obama nominated former one-term Colorado Governor Bill Ritter to head the Energy Department. If the President wanted to make electricity costs skyrocket and the eco-left community happy, Ritter was his guy, [...]

Natural gas double price of coal in Colorado

by amy | 5:12 pm, February 7, 2013

According to the most recent Form 10-K that Xcel Energy, Colorado’s largest investor owned utility (IOU), filed with the Security and Exchange Commission dated December 31, 2011, electricity generation from natural gas was more than double the price of electricity generated from coal in Colorado.
A table on page 18 of the report shows that in [...]

Baker out at PUC

by Amy Oliver | 8:59 am, 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 [...]

Cozy relationship between Xcel and PUC?

by Amy Oliver | 7:18 am, January 12, 2012

In a surprising move to anyone who has watched the cozy relationship develop between Xcel Energy and the Public Utilities Commission, yesterday the PUC denied Xcel’s $142 million interim rate request.
Colorado News Agency columnist Peter Blake (then with Face the State) initially exposed how the PUC, Xcel, and Governor Ritter’s administration colluded on the cost [...]

Finally some outrage over the New Energy Economy

by Amy Oliver | 7:03 pm, December 30, 2011

I may have underestimated the outrage over two recent Xcel Energy rate increase requests.
The first, an attempt to recover the final $16.5 million in cost for Boulder’s Smart Grid City program. Ratepayers are not thrilled about paying for a Boulder project with massive cost overruns.
Check out these comments:
From Phil Carson, editor of the online energy [...]

An 89.5 percent increase since 2004

by Amy Oliver | 9:51 pm, December 27, 2011

Ho hum, Xcel Energy wants another $142 million rate increase, and it wants to recover another $16.5 million for its Boulder smart grid project. And in other news, dog bites man. If the Public Utilities Commission denied the rate increases, that would be a news story.
This is all part of Colorado’s New Energy Economy. Rates [...]

Colorado Supreme Court Justice Nominees Profiled

by CTBC Director | 10:24 pm, October 24, 2011

The three nominees selected a week ago by the Colorado Supreme Court Nominating Commission (Judge Brian Boatright, attorneys Frederick Martinez and Patrick O’Rourke) were each interviewed Friday by Governor John Hickenlooper, and earlier today (Monday) by Lt. Governor Joe Garcia.  Governor Hickenlooper, who has the final say on which of the three will be appointed [...]

Colorado Supreme Court Justice Nominees Profiled

by CTBC Director | 10:24 pm, October 24, 2011

The three nominees selected a week ago by the Colorado Supreme Court Nominating Commission (Judge Brian Boatright, attorneys Frederick Martinez and Patrick O’Rourke) were each interviewed Friday by Governor John Hickenlooper, and earlier today (Monday) by Lt. Governor Joe Garcia.  Governor Hickenlooper, who has the final say on which of the three will be appointed [...]

Bad news for EU could be bad news for CO

by Amy Oliver | 6:49 am, October 24, 2011

Bad news for residents of the European Union and possibly Colorado. EU consumers and businesses face more than twenty years of rising electric costs as the region tries to meet its renewable energy goals according to a leaked report.
The the working title of the draft  report “Energy Roadmap to 2050″ examines how the EU will [...]

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