Developed in 1857, tech improvements are making heat pumps a viable element in the contemporary transition to cleaner, more energy efficient homes.
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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 inOpinion Columns
Opinion: When Denver temperatures plunged below zero, my heat pump kept my home at 70
Advances in technology have created heat pumps that can withstand an Arctic blast, at less operating cost than natural gas.
Posted inEconomy
What’s Working: How Colorado’s high egg and energy prices mesh with its slowing inflation
The Denver metro area’s 8% annual inflation rate in 2022 was the highest in decades. Plus: Readers share their economic outlook, personal savings is in decline, and more!
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 inOpinion Columns
Opinion: The pieces are in place to turn Colorado’s clean energy transition into an economic boom
Lower costs and more jobs are possible — if the parties in the General Assembly work together
Posted inOpinion Columns
Opinion: The transition from gas to electricity mustn’t leave Latino households behind
If wealthier households are first to exit the gas system, the remaining customers will be stuck with higher prices.
Posted inOpinion Columns
Opinion: With investment, Colorado can be a ‘green hydrogen’ energy leader
We have a system for transporting the renewable resource right under our feet.
Posted inBusiness
Xcel’s $32M plan for Sloan Lake area ignites debate over Colorado’s energy future
Critics say Xcel Energy’s push to supply natural gas to 6,800 new customers in Denver, Edgewater and Lakewood runs afoul of Denver’s plans to reduce natural gas consumption
Posted inBusiness
Xcel Energy will hike its gas rate for a third time this year in Colorado
Xcel Energy was OK’d to increase natural gas bills for the third time this year. Consumer advocates say it could have been worse.