Category: Published Media
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People are good, democracy can work
Thanks to Colorado’s congressional delegation for voting to pass HR 6544, the Atomic Energy Advancement Act. Clean energy permitting reform matters to all Americans. We need efficient, effective, modern rules that support a variety of zero and low carbon solutions, focused on ensuring high safety standards, community involvement and efficient deployment.
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Colorado’s transition to renewables
A published letter in the Denver Post – stating that Colorado’s clean energy transition was moving much too slowly – triggered this response from me.
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Nuclear power is part of the energy solution
Colorado’s Senate Committee on Transportation and Energy held a 4-hour hearing on this topic last Wednesday. The bill, SB24-039, would have included nuclear as a “clean energy resource,” defined as technology that generates electricity without emitting carbon. Nuclear power clearly meets that definition. The bill failed.
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Permits, lawsuits and the strangulation of American energy
Co-authored with Delta County Commissioner Wendell A. Koontz – If we want reliable energy, we need to build a mix of sources, transmission, and distribution that balances intermittent renewables with firm generation, and connects supply to demand. Our permitting process for large energy projects is strangling that progress.
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Bill will help with timely switch to cleaner energy
Kudos to Senator Dylan Roberts for sponsoring HB23-1247, Assess Advanced Energy Solutions in Rural Colorado. It’s a bill about opportunity – for Colorado’s energy future and for the economic future of our rural areas.
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Broader narrative on clean energy
Renewables vs. fossil energy is a simplified transition story that, too often, drowns out the broader narrative of innovation and collaboration. Clean energy can be produced in many ways, and emissions can be reduced. We have a lot of smart, dedicated people bringing their best ideas to this problem. We will solve it together.
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Climate change: ‘We can solve it. We already are’
We’re changing how we power our homes, businesses and transportation. By next year, 50% of the electricity consumed by Tri-State’s co-op customers will come from clean resources. LPEA plans to exceed that by adding in more local renewables. Electric vehicles are mainstream now, as is rooftop solar teamed with battery storage.
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In climate fight, hope sustains
Thank you for publishing the poignant, practical article about keeping hope alive as we face difficult work. It was the perfect Mother’s Day gift for me this year.
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Carbon management
Carbon capture can play a critical role in meeting our net-zero goals. Economic incentives could help establish commercial-scale projects in Colorado, such as the Coyote Clean Power Project on the Southern Ute reservation, designed with a cleaner natural gas burning process and sequestration of CO2 emissions.
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Many solutions to combat climate change
We have faced unprecedented threats and disruptions in the past few years. Nothing feels stable or predictable anymore. We’ve learned to be resilient instead. That will help us solve the challenges of climate change. In facing down the pandemic, we found new capacity to adapt, to collaborate, to rely on each other. Companies changed what…
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