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Energy Technology

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2012

    Smart meters can be stupid: Share your story and win $50

    The 500-space, three-month parking pilot project that's installed sensors under many of the meters downtown may enable Denver to teach its Smart meters new tricks -- including zeroing out any time left on a meter when a car pulls out. But those sensors weren't smart enough to fix two dumb situations ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Smart meters in downtown Denver could outwit scofflaws in pilot project

    Like colorful spring flowers, red-bagged meters are popping up all over downtown. They're part of a pilot program testing just how smart Denver's Smart meters really are. Are they smart enough to know when you attempt to plug a meter? Are they smart enough to rat you out?

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Fracking the North Fork Valley: Opponents exult as BLM defers drilling

    Yesterday the U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced that it would remove 22 proposed oil and gas parcels in the scenic North Fork Valley from a summer lease sale, opting instead to "conduct additional analysis...based on public input." And the public that's been deluging the BLM with input -- obj ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Cory Gardner talks energy prices, takes lobbyist cash

    This past Saturday, Colorado Representative Cory Gardner, a member of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, was tapped to offer the Weekly Republican Address on skyrocketing energy costs. But at the same time, a CBS report showed that he's been expending lots of gas on another topic.

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    Abound Solar to become GOP talking point in wake of layoffs, unreported shutdown?

    Update below: It's Super Tuesday, with voters in ten states choosing among Mitt Romney, Rick Santorium, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul for a Republican presidential candidate. And whoever wins the nomination is apt to use controversial Department of Energy loans to alternative energy companies as a talk ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Are you smarter than a Cherry Creek High school student?

    Why do photovoltaic cells have p-type and n-type layers? * What causes stars to twinkle?* If you know the answers to these questions, you might qualify for the winning team of the Colorado Science Bowl. You might even be smarter than a Cherry Creek High school student!

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    What the Frack?!: Grassroots group pushes for fracking moratorium in Arapahoe County

    The first time Sonia Skakich-Scrima learned about fracking, she was reading the Denver Business Journal almost a year ago to date. What she read alarmed her, but what she Googled afterward tripled that. "I tried to understand why we didn't care about the environment or the aftermath," she says. "I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    Fracking is booming, but a friendlier name couldn't hurt. Drill, baby, drill!

    The word of the year? Our money (and yours) is on "fracking," the shortened term for "hydraulic fracturing," a practice that shook neighborhoods (in some cases literally) around the country this year, and has fueled the oil and gas boom in northeastern Colorado. But if energy execs really want to dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Encana blasts EPA report linking fracking to Wyoming water pollution

    Encana WY drill rig. ​In a telephone conference with journalists this morning, officials of the Canadian energy giant Encana sharply disputed an EPA draft report that linked the company's gas drilling operations in Wyoming to contamination of residents' drinking water, calling the report badly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Fracking the North Fork: Paonia residents rally against drilling assault

    ​Thanks to the increasing push for more oil and gas drilling, communities once considered out of the fray are being drawn into the controversies over hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" -- even folks in the stunning North Fork Valley, an area better known for its organic farms, ranches operate ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    Fracking lovefest blooms from John Hickenlooper's gas play

    ​Yesterday, amid an unusually genial gathering of environmental and energy leaders, Governor John Hickenlooper unveiled new state rules requiring detailed disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") methods of drilling for oil and gas -- a major step toward transpa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Fracking: Polluted water in Wyoming could spell trouble in Colorado

    Colorado oil pads.​The release of an EPA report detailing suspected groundwater contamination from gas drilling operations in Wyoming comes just as Colorado is weighing tougher restrictions and wider disclosures about the hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" process -- and may serve as Exhibit A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 14, 2011

    Fracking: Congress needs to drill into the issue, says Diana DeGette

    Diana DeGette.​As reported in this space on Friday, a new study from Common Cause tracks how oil and gas interests spent $747 million on lobbying and campaign donations since 2001 to win congressional support for "fracking," hydraulic fracturing drilling methods that involve using toxic chemic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Fracking: Gas industry pours $747 million into lobbying and Congress

    Colorado well pads. ​As the oil and gas industry has turned increasingly to hydraulic fracturing to extract reserves, fears about groundwater contamination from the toxic chemicals used in "fracking" have intensified. And that's prompted a $747 million spending spree by major industry players ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Fort Lyon prison could live again as wind farm: The answer, my friend, is blowin' in your face

    Mark Manger​It's distressing to learn that the good folks of Bent County are shelling out thousands of dollars a month to lobbyists in an effort to "repurpose" the decrepit, soon-to-be-shuttered state prison at Fort Lyon. After all, we suggested five amazingly practical new uses for the old pl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2011

    Fracking contamination "inconceivable," says John Hickenlooper -- but EPA disagrees

    ​Governor John Hickenlooper has walked a taut tightrope on energy issues since taking office, pushing for more natural gas drilling in a state already leading the region in drilling starts, while at the same time nudging the industry toward greater disclosure of the chemicals used in hydraulic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Fracking Aurora is a natural gas: Kenny Be's Worst-Case Scenario

    ​ On Thursday, June 23, 2011, the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission will explain how hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operations on the former Lowry Bombing Range comply with Arapahoe County's 2007 Sustainable Growth Objectives. It will be an easy sell...

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Fracking primer: State seeks to address uproar over drilling process

    ​Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" -- pumping massive amounts of water mixed with toxic chemicals into tight formations to extract oil and gas -- remains a sore subject among environmentalists, neighbors of drilling rigs and some lawmakers, even as energy industry boosters insist it's safe. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    Renewable energy standards in CO: Lawsuit claims bias against nonrenewable electricity

    ​Are there still people out there who oppose green energy initiatives? Hell yes there are. The American Tradition Institute, a think tank that espouses "free-market principles of stewardship" pertaining to environmental issues, has filed a complaint against the State of Colorado, arguing that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Jared Polis and Diana DeGette try to tighten regulations on fracking -- again

    "Gasland"​Representatives Diane DeGette and Jared Polis are taking another run at tightening federal regulations on hydraulic fracturing, a natural gas drilling technique also known as fracking. Introduced this week by the Colorado twosome and fellow Democratic rep Maurice Hinchey from New Yor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Japanese radiation worries in U.S.: Health dept. tries to calm fears as media stokes them

    ​This morning, Peter Boyles spent part of his KHOW morning show wondering if we should be taking potassium iodide to protect ourselves against radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. And at this writing, the main story on the CBS4 home page asks, "Could Japan's Radi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    Pueblo nuclear power plant proposal hearings against backdrop of Japanese explosions

    ​Timing is everything. With gas prices going up, up, up due to the chaos in North Africa last month, suddenly a nuclear power plant started looking good to Pueblo County, where the commissioners are considering a proposal to make that county one of the spots in the country vying for a new nuke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Gas-drilling oversight bill killed by the House: What's the fracking point?

    Gas well pads.​A bill that sought to increase the reporting process for water-quality complaints related to oil and gas drilling in Colorado died quietly at the statehouse yesterday, with Republican lawmakers insisting that the industry's use of hydraulic fracturing fluids, or "fracking," pose ... More >>

  • News

    September 30, 2010

    Black out: Lamar gets steamed over a troubled coal plant -- right in the middle of town

    Gas well pads.​A bill that sought to increase the reporting process for water-quality complaints related to oil and gas drilling in Colorado died quietly at the statehouse yesterday, with Republican lawmakers insisting that the industry's use of hydraulic fracturing fluids, or "fracking," pose ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 23, 2010

    Home Improvements

    Gas well pads.​A bill that sought to increase the reporting process for water-quality complaints related to oil and gas drilling in Colorado died quietly at the statehouse yesterday, with Republican lawmakers insisting that the industry's use of hydraulic fracturing fluids, or "fracking," pose ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Ken Salazar taps "recovery czar" Chris Henderson to fix MMS

    The New RepublicDrill, baby, drill: Just what does additional offshore drilling add to the mix?​In the wake of the worst American offshore oil disaster in decades, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is scrambling on several fronts to address the perception that his administration has been m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2010

    Colorado tribes looking to ramp up renewable energy, too

    A photo of Ignacio, Colorado, home base of the Southern Ute tribe.​In recent days, the New Mexico-based Jemez Pueblo tribe has gotten plenty of ink for its plan to build "the first utility-scale solar plant on tribal land." Turns out two Colorado tribes -- the Southern Utes and Ute Mountain Ut ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2009

    SMA Solar to convert Denver into Sunny Island

    Sunny Island isn't much of a vacation spot.​You know the decision of a business to relocate is a big deal when the state's governor offers to serve as a de facto publicist, as Bill Ritter did yesterday during the announcement that the German firm SMA Solar Technology AG will be opening a plant ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Larkburger now using 100 percent all-natural wind power

    Larkburgers, fries and shake made with renewable energy​ Larkburger is making a name for itself with such menu items as hand-cut fries seasoned with parmesan and truffle oil -- but Larkburger president Adam Baker hopes that with the switch to wind power for 100 percent of its energy use, the c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    A sunny day for Secretary Solarczar, but a slog ahead?

    ​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was back in Colorado today, August 4, touring a Longmont solar panel company as a way of pushing the Obama administration's vision of a clean energy economy. But that vision, which involves collecting abundant solar power from a procession of solar farms ... More >>

  • News

    April 16, 2009

    For Colorado's largest power co-op, going green will mean taking down the King of Coal

    ​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was back in Colorado today, August 4, touring a Longmont solar panel company as a way of pushing the Obama administration's vision of a clean energy economy. But that vision, which involves collecting abundant solar power from a procession of solar farms ... More >>

  • News

    April 2, 2009

    Ken Salazar wants windmills in the ocean, but first he'll have to save the Interior Department

    ​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was back in Colorado today, August 4, touring a Longmont solar panel company as a way of pushing the Obama administration's vision of a clean energy economy. But that vision, which involves collecting abundant solar power from a procession of solar farms ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2008

    Memories of Colorado’s atomic age

    ​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar was back in Colorado today, August 4, touring a Longmont solar panel company as a way of pushing the Obama administration's vision of a clean energy economy. But that vision, which involves collecting abundant solar power from a procession of solar farms ... More >>

  • News

    November 1, 2007

    Partly Sunny

    CU students have twice won the Solar Decathlon. Can they make it a three-peat?

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2007

    Rich Tower, Poor Tower

    CU students have twice won the Solar Decathlon. Can they make it a three-peat?

  • News

    July 26, 2007

    Pole Position

    Ruby Hill-area residents want to protect their views from eleven-story utility poles, but Xcel thinks it has the juice.

  • Calendar

    June 7, 2007

    Sacrificial Slope

    Ruby Hill-area residents want to protect their views from eleven-story utility poles, but Xcel thinks it has the juice.

  • News

    May 17, 2007

    Auraria Campus Goes Green

    Students get solar-powered.

  • Calendar

    October 5, 2006

    Sun Day

    Students get solar-powered.

  • News

    November 3, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    From the week of November 3, 2005

  • News

    October 27, 2005

    A Mighty Wind

    The results of Xcel's wind-power program are still in the air.

  • News

    October 27, 2005

    Carbon Loading

    Xcel’s solution to rising energy prices includes a lot of coal. Is that a bad thing?

  • News

    August 11, 2005

    Fuel for Love

    The order is in: Buy bio.

  • News

    October 21, 2004

    The Alternative Voter’s Guide

    The Legislative Council’s ballot-analysis booklet has inspired so many fights, it should be called the black-and-blue book. Here’s our cure.

  • News

    December 11, 2003

    Power to the People

    The answer could be blowing in the wind.

  • News

    June 5, 2003

    Grease Monkey

    Marilyn Megenity went biodiesel, and her car came up smelling like...fries.

  • News

    January 24, 2002

    Power Outage

    Xcel Energy faces tough financial scrutiny as power companies nationwide feel the heat.

  • News

    October 4, 2001

    Bringing on the Heat

    The price of natural gas has been on a cycle for years.

  • News

    December 11, 1997

    Socket to Me

    If Colorado deregulates electricity, Californians will be first in line for the state's cheap power--and Coloradans may get fried.

  • News

    May 8, 1997

    Dark Days on Black Mesa

    The Hopi want one of the largest coal mines in North America to stop using their groundwater. If springs and wells dry up, their ancient culture may disappear.

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