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Vestas’ Colorado factories will build wind turbines for Spanish company
One day after Vestas Wind Systems announced that the Danish wind turbine manufacturer is no longer interested in selling its Pueblo manufacturing plant, the company said its four Colorado factories...
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Colorado oil production on a record pace
Colorado’s oil production broke 50-year records in 2012, but 2013 is on pace to top that, according to figures compiled by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (COGCC). Through the first...
View ArticleCarcinogenic benzene undetectable in Parachute Creek after NGLs spill
Test results show there's no benzene contamination in Parachute Creek in western Colorado, near where an estimated 241 barrels of natural gas liquids spilled earlier this year, according to the...
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Shell will keep oil shale R&D, sell its other Colorado assets
Royal Dutch Shell’s U.S. subsidiary will keep its oil shale research project going in Colorado, but the company’s other assets in the northwestern and southeastern parts of the state are up for sale,...
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Cool Planet makes big investment in renewable gasoline, but not in Colorado
Cool Planet Energy Systems, which announced plans to make the Denver-area its headquarters in July, will invest $168 million building the company’s first three biorefineries. Cool Planet’s CEO Howard...
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Energy royalties withheld from Colorado by sequestration to resume flowing
Money from federal royalties on oil, gas, coal, and other minerals mined from public lands in Colorado, withheld during the sequestration budget cuts, will flow again to the state, according to...
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Whiting Petroleum buys 17,000 acres in Williston oil basin
Whiting Petroleum Corp. today announced it will spend $260 million to buy oil and gas wells and about 17,282 net acres of mineral rights in the Williston basin of North Dakota and Montana. The wells,...
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Colorado's coal production down despite demand uptick
Colorado’s coal production is down 19 percent for the first half of 2013 compared to the first six months of 2012, according to the Colorado Department of Reclamation, Mining and Safety, which oversees...
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Wait some more, Colorado PUC tells proposed cab company
Representatives of what would be Denver’s fourth cab company got a hearing Tuesday before the Colorado Public Utilities Commission and were told: Please wait a few more weeks. Waiting is nothing new to...
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Electric buses to link DIA, hotels
Travelers looking for a new way to get from Denver International Airport and hotels along nearby Tower Road can ride an electric bus starting Sept. 1. A second electric bus, built by Chinese...
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Colorado economy would benefit from liquid natural gas exports, economist says
Colorado doesn't have a port, but the state's small businesses have a stake in whether the United States boosts the export of liquified natural gas to other countries, according to the U.S. Small...
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Denver Petroleum Club gets executive director
The Denver Petroleum Club has its first executive director: Sally Hallingstad. The club announced that Hallingstad will take the newly created executive director position, with the aim to grow...
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Biomass revenues could reach billions with government help, Navigant says
Power plants fueled by biomass likely will rake in an estimated $11.5 billion a year in revenues worldwide by 2020, according to a new study from Boulder’s Navigant Research. Biomass is defined as any...
View ArticleColorado cracks down on unpaid E-470 and I-25 tolls
Do you have lots of unpaid tolls for driving E-470 or Interstate 25's express lanes? If so, you probably want to pay up sooner rather than later. That's because this week, nearly 300 people — who owe...
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Coloradans are spending less time behind the wheel
Coloradans are driving less these days — about 11.4 percent less than in 2005 — according to a new study from the Colorado Public Interest Research Group (CoPIRG). The study, titled “Moving off the...
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Colorado LEEDing the way in energy efficient buildings
Colorado and Denver lead the nation when it comes to green buildings. At the end of 2012, Colorado had 91 square feet of LEED-certified buildings per person, ranking the state third in the nation...
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Prescient on cutting edge of building construction
With more than 20 years in the real estate business, partners John Vanker and Michael Lastowski knew there had to be a better way to put up buildings. “We saw where things didn’t work and where they...
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Zero value means big returns
They have workable windows at Golden’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory — a 360,000-square-foot, $91.4 million office building known as the Research Support Facility (RSF). It enables employees to...
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RTD’s Eagle P3 rail halfway to finish
The Regional Transportation District’s Eagle P3 project, the biggest portion of its sprawling FasTracks project to lay rail lines linking far-flung Denver suburbs, is about half finished, the agency...
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Denver's Leprino Foods to close Nebraska cheese plant
Denver’s Leprino Foods Co. will close its string cheese factory in Ravenna, Neb., in November, a company spokesman said Friday. “It’s a very difficult decision for us to make,” said Mike Reidy, the...
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