DENVER— HB 1001 will bring thousands of new jobs to Colorado and add 100,000 solar rooftops over the next decade without raising energy costs for Colorado consumers. Sponsored by Senator Gail Schwartz (D-Snowmass) and Senator Bruce Whitehead (D-Hesperus) and Rep. Max Tyler (D-Golden), HB 1001 will increase Colorado’s Renewable Energy Standard to 30% by 2020. That means that nearly a third...
Lawmakers referenced the movies "Alice in Wonderland" and "Ishtar" during a sometimes bizarre debate on a renewable-energy bill that tied up the Senate for a day and a half.
Republicans argued that the Democrat-sponsored measure mandates that large utilities rely more heavily on "taxpayer-subsidized energy sources," mainly wind and solar.
I would like to acknowledge and thank Sen. Gail Schwartz on her recently bipartisan supported legislation she introduced, Bill HB10-1001 Renewable Energy Standard. The bill increases Colorado's Renewable Energy Standard from 20 percent to 30 percent for investor owned utilities, and adds a minimum requirement for distributed generation of 3 percent of total retail electric...
A panel of four women and three men talked gender yesterday at the Capitol as they considered a measure that would tell health insurance companies that they can no longer charge women higher rates than men for their premiums.
The proposal passed, but only after a lively discussion on whether men or women ultimately get the short end of the stick from the insurance industry.
Environmental advocates supporting a bill in the state Legislature that would require Xcel Energy to get 30 percent of its power from renewable sources released a report Tuesday saying the higher mandate could create 23,000 jobs in the state’s solar industry over the next 10 years.
The study, “Investing in the Sun,” was compiled by Environment Colorado, a Denver-based environmental...
Everyone knows the environmental benefits of renewable energy technology, but people often overlook the boost renewable energy can have on an economy. We have been working with Rep. Max Tyler, Gov. Bill Ritter, the environmental community, investor-owned energy companies, and rural electric associations to come up with a plan to use these technologies to bring jobs to Colorado.
DENVER — A bill promoting renewable energy generated close to home will be heard by a state Senate committee today, and its supporters say it will bring jobs and lower energy bills to Colorado residents.
Vestas, which is bringing an estimated 500 jobs to Pueblo for its wind-tower manufacturing plant, was touted by supporters as a harbinger of how new energy options can supercharge the...
Voters approved Amendment 37 five years ago requiring Colorado's top utility companies to acquire 10 percent of its retail electricity from “clean” sources like wind or solar.
A couple of years later, the renewable energy standard was boosted to 20 percent by 2020 — a goal already reached.
