Energy

Jan 13, 2023

Made in Colorado 2023 — 10 Stories Behind the Colorado Craft

These businesses have at least one thing in common: They all make products in Colorado. There are some subsets with other commonalities. Two, coincidentally, were born in garages in Windsor. Three others have new ownership since 2020. After that, it’s all over the map. One is sending cutting-edge technology to space. Another m[...]

Jan 9, 2023

Do Hispanics Bear the Brunt of the Energy Crisis?

A perfect storm is a weather disaster produced by a calamitous combination of unusual factors. While we hear the term often, it’s also an apropos allegory for describing current events which are combining to effectuate a potential shift in Colorado’s political and policy landscapes. Like all Americans, Coloradans are suffoca[...]

Dec 27, 2022

Rising to the Cleantech Challenge

The oil and natural gas industry propelled America to greatness in the last century. It is the foundation of energy and artificial light, allowing homes and businesses to be lit at night. The industry is the reason America can heat homes in the winter and keep them cool in the summer. Without it, Americans, particularly [&hellip[...]

Dec 24, 2022

Clearing the Air on Colorado’s Emissions

If you’ve lived here long enough, you know about Colorado’s infamous brown cloud and seen the electronic signs with air quality warnings. These ozone alerts from the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) appear more often on hot summer days and advocate carpooling, exercising indoors, or driving and mowing lawns after[...]

Dec 15, 2022

All-Electric Houses On the Rise — Colorado Homebuilders Embrace Alternatives to Natural Gas

Pure Zero Construction has begun building houses in Pueblo with components that, although still rare in Colorado, may become commonplace during the next few years. Mainly, all-electric houses. Natural gas is absent from these houses. Electric-powered air-source heat pumps manufactured by Mitsubishi extract warmth from outdoor ai[...]

Dec 13, 2022

Grant McCargo — CEO of the Year 2022 Finalist

Colorado is full of devoted entrepreneurs, business leaders and tech-savvy visionaries who are constantly taking the business world to new heights. It’s no secret that here, at ColoradoBiz, we love the Colorado business community. That’s why, every year, we spotlight the most impressive CEOs throughout our Centennial[...]

Oct 26, 2022

A Zero is Not OK: Some Colorado Representatives are Failing Us on Energy

With ballots hitting millions of Colorado mailboxes last week, it can be tough to sift through the countless resources voters now have (or receive) when casting their votes. Perhaps too much information can be a bad thing. But with energy touching nearly every facet of every business, it’s arguable that energy is the most impo[...]

Oct 18, 2022

Top Company 2022: Energy

The outpouring of applications for this year’s Top Company awards is a testament to the resilience and adaptability of enterprises that do business in the state. Applications for the 35th annual awards numbered in the hundreds, and it was particularly encouraging to see so many companies rebounding from two years of COVID rest[...]

Oct 10, 2022

Water Pipeline Back in Play? — The Future of Colorado’s Water Distribution

From Aaron Million’s 12th-floor office in downtown Fort Collins, you can see Wyoming in the distance. Depending upon the route, it can be 3,000 feet uphill. The downhill side of that equation, however, has become a key feature in Million’s pipeline vision.  Million wants to import water 338 miles from the Green River in Uta[...]

Sep 16, 2022

America’s Energy Future Depends on Cultivating the Next Generation of Talent   

Since the start of the Industrial Age, affordable and reliable energy has helped fuel economic growth. Studies have shown that there is a positive correlation between energy consumption and economic growth. Each time the material we use for energy changes (from wood to coal to nuclear, for example), society adapts. The energy in[...]

Sep 6, 2022

Taming Agriculture’s Energy Hogs 

Sam Anderson, energy specialist with the Colorado Department of Agriculture, oversees the state’s ACRE3 program that provides agricultural producers with grant funding for energy-efficiency projects and renewable energy.  Return on investment depends on the type of operation. “Dairies and year-round greenhouses are incredib[...]

Jul 25, 2022

Three ways ADUs Go Easy on the Environment 

Homeowners thinking about adding freestanding ADUs (accessory dwelling units, a.k.a. in-law apartments, granny flats, or cottages) tend to focus on creating much-needed space without knocking down walls in the houses they’re living in, the addition of rental income, and other practical considerations. The political can also co[...]