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Boulder residents may vote again on city power utility
Boulder’s city council is scheduled to vote next week on moving forward to buy — or condemn — Xcel Energy Inc.’s power poles and wires and create a new utility to serve its residents. And the council,...
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Portraits on the mall: Tammy Feder and Barbara Anderson
The 16th Street Mall is a place for tourists, diners and shoppers, and where people live and work. Denver Business Journal reporters fanned out along the length of the mall to get the impressions of...
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Colorado Oil & Gas Assoc. CEO: A Q&A on industry issues
Operations of Colorado's oil and gas industry has become increasingly controversial since 2009 as energy companies have sent more drilling rigs onto the state’s urbanized Front Range, and the rigs pop...
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More people charged up about electric bicycles
The market for electric bicycles is tiny in North America, but worldwide nearly 38 million of the motor-assisted bicycles are expected to be sold in 2020, up from 31 million in 2013, according to a...
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16th Street Mall paver project aims to reduce maintenance
Get high enough over the 16th Street Mall and the red, white and gray granite pavers that form the surface of the pedestrian mall take on the pattern of the skin of a diamondback rattlesnake. But the...
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Broomfield’s RES Americas to build wind farm for Xcel in Minnesota
A subsidiary of Broomfield's RES Americas will build the 200-megawatt Pleasant Valley Wind Farm for Xcel Energy Inc. in Minnesota. Minneapolis-based Xcel (NYSE: XEL) is Colorado’s largest utility...
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Colorado 8th for solar power, but could do more, says report
Colorado ranks eighth in the nation for solar power generated per capita, but the state still should do more to increase the solar power it produces, a new report says. The report, issued Tuesday and...
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Boulder consultant says new city-owned utility is feasible
PowerServices Inc., a consultant hired by Boulder, says its evaluation indicates that a new, city-owned power utility is feasible and could start operations at rates that would meet or beat those of...
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Portraits on the mall: Richard Anthony
The 16th Street Mall is a place for tourists, diners and shoppers, and where people live and work. Denver Business Journal reporters fanned out along the length of the mall to get the impressions of...
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Officials pitch Aurora as a bright spot for future development
Aurora city and economic officials on Wednesday told nearly 400 members of Denver’s construction community about big projects they say will change the city in coming years. “Aurora is in transition...
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Xcel’s renewable energy plan for 2014: More solar, smaller rebates, big...
Xcel Energy Inc. is asking Colorado regulators to look at how much credit solar power customers should get on their bills — and whether its other customers are paying too much to subsidize the...
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Anti-fracking groups call for Colorado oil and gas director to resign
A coalition of nearly 50 groups opposed to the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in Colorado has called for the resignation of Matt Lepore, the director of the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation...
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Schuller fights for oil, gas interests
Operations of Colorado’s oil and gas industry have become more controversial in recent years as energy companies have sent more drilling rigs to the urbanized Front Range, close to suburban...
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Water pipelines help energy companies keep it clean
Some oil and gas companies are kicking up less dust in Weld County these days, piping water to their drilling and hydraulic-fracturing sites rather than trucking it in. Some of the water pipelines are...
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Xcel Energy CEO: HQ might leave Minneapolis
Xcel Energy Inc. would move its headquarters out of Minneapolis if the city creates a new municipal utility to serve residents in place of Xcel, CEO Ben Fowke has said. According to a story published...
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Low-tech materials used more in green building, report says
Old-school, low-tech building materials — such as wood, straw, and bamboo — are new again when it comes to green buildings, according to a new report from Boulder-based Navigant Research. Green...
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Cool Energy gets DOE grant to bring green power to oil and gas fields
Cool Energy Inc., a Boulder startup that aims to produce small amounts of electricity from heat that’s normally wasted, has received a $1 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to bring its technology...
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Interior Dept. says its operations are worth $10.5B to Colorado economy
The U.S. Department of the Interior supported 2.3 million jobs and contributed $371 billion to the U.S. economy in 2012 through its operations, from energy development to national parks visits,...
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Rep. Jared Polis withdraws suit over oil and gas well
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis has withdrawn a suit asking a judge to stop the drilling of an oil and gas well near a home he owns in Weld County, the Boulder Daily Camera reports. The suit had been scheduled...
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Feds deny Boulder’s request to limit cost of divorce from Xcel Energy
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has denied the city of Boulder’s request for a declaratory judgment that would limit how much money the city has to pay Xcel Energy Inc. for the utility’s...
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