Fort Collins-based AtmosZero is using brewer to pilot a drop-in heat pump system that could help reduce the carbon footprints of other similar companies that account for 7% of U.S. greenhouse gases.
Mark Jaffe
Special to The Colorado Sun
Twitter: @bymarkjaffe
Posted inBusiness
Residential development in Erie, Longmont stalled after wells plugged decades ago start leaking oil and gas
One orphaned well was added to Colorado regulators’ long list of projects, and another may be joining it. Both may have to wait in line.
Posted inEquity
Promising actors with disabilities take on Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in Denver
“This isn’t a sweet little thing where the audience goes and claps for the nice disabled people. We are trying to create rigorously artistic productions,” Phamaly Theatre artistic director said
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Xcel will raise electric bills again next month. A quarter of the hike will cover closing coal-fired power plants.
The utility’s 1.6 million Colorado customers will see their bills rise 4.4% — about $4 on the average residential bill — on Sept. 1
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95 oil and gas wells are in the way of economic development in Frederick. Town officials want the barrier gone.
Frederick, and its neighbor Dacono, are appealing to state regulators to force K.P. Kauffman to plug and abandon wells developers say are making them look elsewhere.
Posted inEnvironment
Want a hot tub at your Colorado ski town home? You might have to offset its emissions first.
Breckenridge — and soon Summit County — is adopting a “renewable energy mitigation plan” to offset greenhouse gases from outdoor amenities
Posted inWater
Early closure of Pueblo coal plant could force Xcel customers to pay up to $89M for water it doesn’t need
Customers of the state’s largest utility also are responsible for debt service on $27 million spent on never used southeastern Colorado ditch rights
Posted inBusiness
Xcel must cut emissions from its gas business 22% by 2030. The role heat pumps can play is a point of dispute.
Environmental groups say heat pumps can get most of the emissions out. Xcel paid for a study that begs to differ.
Posted inBusiness
As Colorado’s electric vehicle charging infrastructure grows, the question remains: Who will pay for it?
Private companies are already making major investments in EV charging. But should monopoly utilities, like Xcel, support them or build their own?
Posted inEnvironment
Colorado is first in the U.S. to make rules tying pollution reduction to oil and gas production
The “emissions intensity” rule requires companies closely monitor methane releases and limits allowed pollution based on how much oil and gas they produce