Climate Change: The Latest Science, Why It’s Serious, and What We Can Do About It 100 Colorado Springs residents turned out to learn about climate change from Dr. Charles (Chuck) Kutscher, Director of the Buildings and Thermal Systems Center at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).  The presentation was co-sponsored by Colorado Renewable Energy Society, and […]

Colorado Springs, May 7th In spite of a major hail storm, a great crowd turned out for this. The landscape of electrical power generation is changing more dramatically today than in the last 130 years, and the impact on municipal utilities is significant.  Rising mining costs, new gas supplies from fracturing, plummeting solar and wind […]

Colorado’s RES In 2004 Colorado’s voters adopted a renewable energy standard (RES), the first in the country enacted by popular vote.  The Colorado RES has been updated to increase renewable energy requirements since then and now (2014) requires the following: 30% renewable energy by 2020 for investor owned utilities (IOUs) 20% renewable energy by 2020 […]

  2 Screenings of the Documentary “Switch” at Discovering the Future of Energy Event Penrose Library, April 1st at 6:45 PM Colorado College, April 4th at 6:45 PM Free and Open to the Public The public is invited to attend, Discovering the Future of Energy, an event hosted by the Southeastern Colorado Renewable Energy Society […]

  Tri-State has entered a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the entire output of a 150 MW wind farm operated by NextEra Energy Resources in eastern Colorado near Burlington.  It will be Tri-State’s larger wind PPA to date.  The  wind power will go to Tri-State’s 44 member  cooperatives across Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming.  Five of […]

A $400M wind farming going into El Paso County; Martin Drake coal fired power plant retirement studied; incandescent light bulbs disappearing from store shelves.  There is a lot happening in the energy world that impacts you and your community.On behalf of the SouthEastern Chapter of the Colorado Renewable Energy Society, we would like to invite you […]

On November 15th the Gazette reported approval is being sought to build a 147 turbine, 250 MW wind farm in eastern El Paso County.  Golden West Power Partners LLC is the firm building the wind farm and they have a contract with Xcel Energy to buy all the output.  No mention of Colorado Springs Utilities in […]