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  • Buffalo Bill’s Historic Sheridan Inn

    The Bella Energy 10 kilowatt solar system produces 100% of the Inn’s electrical needs and a geothermal energy borefield produces all its heat and hot water.

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Legislation

 

Xcel Energy

May 16 2008

Xcel Energy announces intended site of Smart Grid City: Boulder, Colo. to become first fully integrated "smart" city in the nation. City of Boulder Colorado ...

 

Xcel Energy Selects GridPoint SmartGrid Platform for its ...

May 16 2008

Xcel Energy Selects GridPoint SmartGrid Platform for its SmartGridCity in Boulder, CO, A $100 Million Effort.

 

SmartGrid City House Plan (pdf)

 

SmartGrid City Plan (pdf)

 

Colorado Governor Ritter Signs Homegrown Energy Bill At Longmont Farm

All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden

April 2, 2008
... renewable energy incentives offered from the Governor's Energy Office, net-metering will further help to develop Colorado's renewable energy economy.

 

Industry

Powering up on renewable energy

September 27, 2008 - R. Scott Rappold

Colorado has some of the greatest potential in the nation for wind and
solar power, but chances are, it was coal that powered the computer
you're reading this on.

 

Solar Array for Colorado School

By aer Staff - September 24, 2008

Bella Energy, Boulder, Colo., has installed a 100 kW solar system at the Kent Denver School, a private college preparatory middle school and high school in Englewood, Colo.

 

EXTREME TECHNOLOGY
Mother Earth News - Topeka, KS USA
Instructors Johnny Weiss and Ken Olson of Solar Energy International
(SEI), a nonprofit, renewable energy education and training
organization, ...

 

Proposed Bill Would Allow Offshore Drilling, Add Renewable Energy ...
Fort Collins Now - Fort Collins,CO,USA

The "New Energy Reform Act" would extend a federal renewable energy and energy efficiency tax credit, set to expire this month, until 2012. ...

 

Colorado Gets Grant To Advance Renewable Energy
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA

DENVER (AP) ― Colorado has won a $397,700 Department of Energy grant that the state plans to use toward adding 1000 megawatts of renewable resource capacity ...

 

Penley gives CSU's annual Fall Address with plans to make ...
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA
"We are Colorado State University - the Green University - leading the way in research, education, and practice associated with sustainable energy and the ...


Business of Green: A Special Section

New York Times-July 16, 2008
By Steven Greenhouse-A House Powered by the Sun,

A tour through a home that produces more energy than it consumes.

 

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
U.S. Department of Energy News-July 16, 2008

G8 Leaders Commit to 50% Cut in Greenhouse Gases by 2050

 

Green Energy Projects Making a Splash in Germany May Soon Be Coming to U.S.
Fox News-July 14, 2008
By Greg Palkot

Mayor John Hickenlooper Announces Green Frontier Fest and New ...
dBusinessNews Denver (press release)-Denver,CO July 14, 2008
Xcel Energy also plans to have on display the 2007 University of Colorado Solar Decathlon House. Xcel Energy sponsored the innovative zero-energy home ...

 

Fort Collins Ranked Among Best Small Cities In America
TheDenverChannel.com-Denver,CO July 14, 2008

And the city just received a grant from the Department of Energy to start a solar-energy project downtown." The Web site goes on to say, "As for health care ..

State's economy is on right track
Denver Post-Denver,CO July 13, 2008
... Colorado's leap up the charts, according to CNBC analysts, is that it "has been actively courting what it calls the New Energy Economy-wind and solar. ...

 

The Independent Weekly Line on Durango and Beyond
Durango Telegraph-Durango,CO July 10, 2008

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, who made the "new energy economy" the center of his campaign two years ago, commended the installation, the largest array of ...

 

Xcel Energy Selects GridPoint SmartGrid Platform for its $100 Million SmartGridCity

ARLINGTON, VA-May 15, 2008-GridPoint Inc., a leading clean tech company whose smart grid platform benefits electric utilities, consumers and the environment, announced Xcel Energy selected the GridPoint SmartGrid Platform™ for its SmartGridCity™ in Boulder, Colorado

 

Renewable Energy Sparks June Gathering in Pueblo

RedOrbit-Dallas,TX,USA The Colorado Renewable Energy Society will host the 2008 Colorado Renewable Energy Conference June 6-8 at the convention center. ...

May 20, 2008

 

Town Teaches Homeowners To Reduce Energy Usage
Green Heart Institute Helps Lyons Track Energy Habits
Katie Strickland, News Editor
POSTED: 10:30 pm MDT April 22, 2008
UPDATED: 9:27 am MDT April 23, 2008

 

Open Energy Corporation Signs Inaugural "Solar Communities" Project

Solana Beach, Calif.-(BUSINESS WIRE)-March 31, 2008

Open Energy Corporation (OTCBB: OEGY), a renewable energy company focused on building integrated photovoltaic ...

Homes and Buildings of interest

 

Solar home: All the energy minus the utility bill

The Tribune, July 22, 2007

...As it is, however, Rochester's house makes far more energy than it consumes.

 

Glenwood Springs Post Independent - Valley News

Glenwood Springs Post Independent, April 27, 2007

For a brighter future. Yampah Mountain High School installs solar panels ...

 

Clean Mountain Living

Boulder Green Building Guide, Winter 2007