Category: Published Media
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What Colorado can teach Washington about energy
Co-authored with Delta County Commissioner Wendell A. Koontz – In Delta County, a solar project that once divided neighbors became a model for how to build trust, protect land, and move clean energy forward. Washington could learn a thing or two.
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Energy security starts at home: Colorado families should invest in tech now
Investing in home energy efficiency upgrades like heat pumps and solar panels protects families from volatile energy prices while strengthening Colorado’s electrical grid—and federal incentives expire at the end of 2025.
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How policy volatility could break America’s power grid
America’s energy policy is starting to feel like a game of Calvinball – the anything-goes sport from Calvin and Hobbes where the rules change mid-play to favor whoever’s holding the ball. That’s the reality for utilities and energy developers trying to plan in an era of constant surprises.
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After America’s great energy divorce, what’s next?
The world is moving toward cleaner, cheaper, more distributed energy whether America leads or follows. The question isn’t whether this transition will happen — it’s whether American innovation, American workers, and American companies will drive it.
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Bipartisan Fix Our Forests Act is smart policy
We all face increasing threat from the West’s hotter, drier, denser forests. That’s just a fact. Last year we lost 9 million acres to wildland fire. We can’t fix hot, and we can’t fix dry — not in the short term anyway. But we can fix dense.
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Thankful for Reps. Hurd and Evans for standing up for clean energy tax credits
If Congress takes the energy credits away, not only will it waste capital expenditure funds already invested in the specific projects, but the project failures will trigger a chain reaction — not just in Colorado, but across the United States.
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IRA invests in energy, water and rural America
The Inflation Reduction Act makes a generational investment in low-carbon energy and helps Americans adapt to a warming climate. Its energy tax credits are popular in many Republican districts, sparking local investment, building domestic supply chains, and accelerating innovation in technologies like geothermal, advanced nuclear, battery storage and carbon capture.
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An Abundance of Energy Dominance
We are in a miraculous moment where energy can be many, many things, each with its own advantages and disadvantages, its own champions and critics. To me, that sounds like freedom, market choice, competitiveness. Building a big toolkit of energy solutions allows us to find the right tool for the right job. To me, that…
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Courage required for energy permitting reform
Co-authored with Delta County Commissioner Wendell A. Koontz – It takes courage, but real people are still working together to solve real problems — even in the U.S. Congress, where lawmakers are forging a common-sense solution to address our energy needs and mitigate climate change. It’s happening through a wonky process called energy permitting reform.
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Can we talk about energy?
What does energy mean to you? That can be a controversial question these days. For most of my life, energy meant the wall switch I flipped to light the room, and the gasoline I pumped into my car. I didn’t think about how those electrons got into my light bulb or how gasoline got into…
Powering Forward 