Renewable energy

Local News

Animas High seniors demonstrate learning in big ways

Students constructing a tiny house, solar car

May 13, 2016

Nation & World

Renewables top coal in power production

states benefiting from shift to wind and solar energy

May 8, 2016

Regional News

Colorado Public Utilities Commission shoots down Xcel’s community solar garden agreement

regulators: Plan would have cost ratepayers

March 16, 2016

Regional News

Coal phased out

governor signs landmark bill

March 12, 2016

Business

Montezuma County looks to life after Kinder Morgan

to do when carbon dioxide runs out?

February 16, 2016

Business

Buyer beware: Solar power may be missing key ingredient

The Vermont attorney general’s office issued a warning letter to solar industry businesses in December 2015 saying some could face…

January 19, 2016

Regional News

New stock show campus aims to be energy smart

lab to help National Western Stock Show create efficient campus

December 24, 2015

Business

Navajo Nation on track for first utility-scale solar plant

The $64 million plant is on track to be built by the end of 2016, using federal loans and tax…

December 22, 2015

Southwest Life

Four Corners School of Outdoor Education shows off new discovery center

So in 2002 when the Four Corners School of Outdoor Education began planning for a brick-and-mortar campus to centralize its…

December 16, 2015

Nation & World

Draft climate agreement ready in Paris

work to be done at midway point of international meeting

December 5, 2015

Local News

Policy adviser at Colorado State University: Clean Power Plan will hit coal industry the hardest

Required reduction in carbon emissions will discourage future plants

December 2, 2015

Local News

Heading toward net zero

Tyler McKnight helps install solar panels Thursday morning at Mountain Middle School. He’s carrying one of 164 panels that will…

November 19, 2015

Local News

Mountain Middle School to use solar power

Dustin Mosiman, who donated his time, pushes wire through electric pipe while working on the Mountain Middle School building in…

October 23, 2015

Business

Big electricity is looking at your roof

Utilities don’t want to get squeezed out of residential solar market

September 29, 2015

Local News

Solar puts county in good place

Michael Rendon, president of the La Plata Electric Association board, spoke ahead of a report released Thursday by Environment Colorado…

September 3, 2015

Local News

Environmental groups defend EPA plan for cleaner power

A plume of steam billows from the coal-fired Merrimack Station in Bow, N.H. President Barack Obama plans to clamp down…

September 1, 2015

Business

Global fire sale on stuff that’s combustible

Oil, natural gas, coal prices sink like stones

August 4, 2015

Local News

Feds grant local electric co-ops more control

Tri-State could appeal decision favorable to renewables

June 22, 2015

Business

Batteries to the rescue

shows the coming revolution in energy storage

May 5, 2015

$Feds set new frack rules$

Local News

Feds set new frack rules

to affect about 100K wells

March 20, 2015

Local News

Dems stop renewable-energy rollback

GOP suggest implementation ‘timeout’ of previous mandates

March 2, 2015

Regional News

GOP advances bill to roll back renewable-energy mandate

But the vote probably doesn’t mean that utilities will need less energy from renewable sources. The Democratic House is unlikely…

February 5, 2015

Local News

Can there ever be too much solar?

Systems sometimes can generate too much electricity

February 3, 2015

Local News

Senate advances renewable-energy rollback

Democrats say standards will lower prices – over time

February 3, 2015