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Bonanza Creek Energy CEO, founder retires
Michael Starzer, the president and CEO of Bonanza Creek Energy Inc. and its co-founder, is "retiring from the company" and its board, effective Jan. 31, according to an after-the-fact announcement....
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SunRun buys solar power installation company REC Solar
SunRun, a California solar power development company that is big in Colorado’s renewable energy market, has purchased the residential division of REC Solar, which also has operations across the state....
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Colorado's MTech Mechanical grows via merger with Total Plumbing
MTech Mechanical, a design-build mechanical contractor in Colorado's commercial and high-tech sectors, is merging with the commercial side of Denver’s Total Plumbing, which works for both residential...
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Meritage Midstream moving HQ, lands $125 million credit line
Meritage Midstream Services II LLC, which transports oil and natural gas in several western states, says it has entered into a three-year $125 million revolving credit line. And Meritage is moving its...
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Tri-State to buy power from new Colorado wind farm
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association Inc., which serves 44 rural cooperatives in Colorado and three other states, will buy all the power generated by a new wind farm to be built in Kit...
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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman offers proposal to speed construction of VA hospitals
A bipartisan proposal to speed up construction and curb “out of control” building costs for three major Department of Veterans Affairs’ hospitals, including one in Aurora, was introduced in Congress...
View ArticleWind industry roars back in 2013
Last year started slowly for the U.S. wind industry, with just a single 1.6 megawatt wind turbine installed in the entire country during the first six months of 2013. But it ended on a high note, with...
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George Solich, Tad Herz back in the oil & gas rodeo with FourPoint Energy
George Solich and Tad Herz are two men in a hurry. The duo, who together have built and sold three private oil and gas companies in the last 12 years, have launched their fourth venture: FourPoint...
View ArticleAscent Solar closes on $10 million in new financing
Thornton’s Ascent Solar Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of flexible, thin-film solar power panels, has closed on a previous announced $10 million in additional financing. The company announced in...
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Newmont completes sale of Nevada mine
Newmont Mining Corp. has closed the sale of its Midas operation in Nevada to Klondex Mines Ltd. (TSX: KDX) for more than $83 million. Newmont (NYSE: NEM) announced in early December its plan to sell...
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Colorado’s solar power market stalls on jobs front
Colorado's solar power industry employed 3,600 people in 2013, the same as in 2012, according to new figures from a national jobs survey conducted by The Solar Foundation. But Colorado lost ground to...
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DCP Midstream supports tighter Colorado oil and gas air rules
DCP Midstream LP, the biggest natural gas processor working in eastern Colorado's Denver-Julesburg Basin, has endorsed the proposed oil and gas air quality rules after the state agreed to make changes...
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Exclusive: CH2M Hill's CFO exits
Michael A. Lucki, chief financial officer of CH2M Hill Cos. Ltd. since late 2010, has left the global engineering company, a spokesperson has confirmed. The Douglas County-based company has not...
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CDOT states its case for private partner on U.S. 36
State road officials are launching a full-court press with the public and state legislators. They hope to better explain the need for private contractors to take over a $490 million project to expand...
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Noble Energy, Anadarko, Encana support tightening Colorado air rules
Three of Colorado's biggest oil and gas companies and a national environmental group are maintaining their support of new, tighter regulations the state is proposing. The rules are meant to cut...
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Round four for veteran oilmen: Solich, Herz kick off new venture
George Solich and Tad Herz are two men in a hurry. The pair has built and sold three private oil and gas companies in the last 12 years, and now they’ve launched their fourth venture: FourPoint Energy...
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CDOT makes public controversial contract for U.S. 36 project
The Colorado Department of Transportation has released nearly all of a 600-page, $497.4 million, 50-year contract the agency expects to sign before the end of the month with an international consortium...
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Solar power for no money down? Colorado homebuyers like it
Home buyers on a budget like the idea of adding solar power systems to their new roof, but in Oakwood Homes' experience, very few of them are willing to roll the cost into the price of the new home....
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Colorado slips in ranking of LEED-certified buildings
Colorado ranked eighth in the nation in LEED buildings certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, according to the council’s latest ranking. The ranking is based on square footage per capita in...
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For no money down, solar panels go up
What’s the best way to entice homebuyers to add solar power systems to their new homes? Try this: No money down. Or “free upfront.” That’s what Denver-based homebuilder Oakwood Homes LLC is offering...
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