The requests Gov. Jared Polis made Monday will take a year or more to take effect. They are intended to help Coloradans next winter.
Mark Jaffe
Special to The Colorado Sun
Twitter: @bymarkjaffe
Posted inColoradans
The dancers’ manual: Passing down Colorado ballet, one class at a time
There may be no place, except perhaps the military, that is more highly regimented than ballet
Posted inBusiness
Troubled oil and gas company K.P. Kauffman threatened with loss of right to do business in Colorado
State’s regulators reinstated a large fine set aside when KPK promised to clean up leaks and spills because just a tiny fraction of the work is done
Posted inEnergy
Heat pumps are having a moment in Colorado, but do they really work in the bitter cold? Yes.
Developed in 1857, tech improvements are making heat pumps a viable element in the contemporary transition to cleaner, more energy efficient homes.
Posted inEnergy
Colorado utility bills are high because of two things state regulators can’t control: Weather and gas prices
State utilities regulators called a hearing to discuss how — and if they can — lessen impacts of frigid weather and pressure in the natural gas market
Posted inBusiness
K.P. Kauffman asks for more time to clean up troubled oil and gas wells. Colorado regulators are out of patience.
KPK says it will be in better financial condition if it sells northeastern Colorado wells to a company proposing to use them for a carbon capture project.
Posted inBusiness
4 Colorado electric co-ops want repayment after Xcel Energy allegedly mishandled gas supply during a deep freeze
Xcel appears to have directed its own natural gas supply to meet reserve requirements rather than generate power during 2021 storm. “It’s like someone is knocking on your door to pay a credit card bill and you are putting the money in savings.”
Posted inEnvironment
Could Colorado communities get to 100% renewable energy faster than utility companies? Lawmakers may provide the tool.
Community choice electric, or CCE, is a concept pioneered in 1999. Xcel Energy says it’s a solution to a carbon problem that is already on its way to being solved.
Posted inBusiness
Soaring utility bills send huge waves of people scrambling for help keeping heat and lights on in Colorado
More than 100,000 people have called for aid paying gas and electric bills, but the help is available only once per customer
Posted inBusiness
Working group will begin exploring rules for controlling the cumulative impacts of oil and gas drilling in Colorado
Regulators reacted to the appeal of 6 environmental groups that say data for individual drilling projects isn’t helping solve Colorado’s regional pollution problems