Nancy Lofholm had an interesting profile in Sunday’s Denver Post on an attempt to turn sunflowers into fuel in southwestern Colorado.
Sunflowers into fuel in SW Colorado
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Colo. could bump renewable standard to 30% by 2020
8 02 2010Colorado’s renewable energy standard would increase to 30 percent in the next decade, rather than the current 20 percent requirement, in a bill introduced last week. More information from the Denver Post.
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Bye Energy buys Novare Biofuels
3 02 2010From the Denver Business Journal:
Greenwood Village-based Bye said that with the acquisition, it has obtained rights to concepts and designs for a thermochemical biomass process initially developed by Boulder-based Novare. This process “is designed to produce both aviation gasoline and aviation jet fuel,” Bye said in a statement.
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San Luis Valley power line debated in court
2 02 2010The fight over the proposed 150-mile power line across southern Colorado continues in court, as Xcel and Tri-State attorneys denied they had improper conversations with regulators. Billionaire Louis Bacon, who owns the 171,000 Trinchera Ranch through which the line would pass, has proposed an alternate route. The utilities say the line is necessary to make use of the region’s potential for solar energy, including a SunEdison plant that supplies power for Xcel.
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Tags: Louis Bacon, SunEdison, transmission, Tri-State, Tri-State Generation and Transmission, Trinchera Ranch, Xcel
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U.S. wind power up 39% in 2009
30 01 2010…according to the American Wind Energy Association.
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Geothermal site on hold again
30 01 2010A tract of land being held for a geothermal energy project will undergo further review by the Bureau of Land Management, instead of being leased to industry development. This is the third such delay for the 799-acre piece of federal land.
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CoBiz: Advice on getting clean tech financing
25 01 2010Greg Pfahl from Hein & Associates talks about what he learned from working with start-ups as a Rocky Mountain Clean Tech Open sponsor in ColoradoBiz this morning, and has advice on getting financing to take an idea to reality.
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DBJ profiles Sundrop Fuels, CORE’s Graham Russell
25 01 2010The Denver Business Journal’s Cathy Proctor had a number of good pieces in this week’s issue (subscription required ,but you can read the first few paragraphs if you don’t have a subscription), including:
- A profile on Louisville-based Sundrop Fuels
- CORE director Graham Russell on why efficiency is more important than renewable energy.
- The international attention Colorado has received from big, foreign companies like Abengoa Solar and Vestas Wind Systems.
- An examination of the public land debate for renewable energy, which has divided many previously aligned groups (written by Jennifer Biever and Andy Spielman, not Cathy Proctor).
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Tags: CORE, Graham Russell, New energy economy, Sundrop Fuels
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Community wind project gets $2.5M
22 01 2010The Northeast Colorado Wind Project (NECO), a community wind farm in Phillips County, received $2.5 million in stimulus money.
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NREL’s solar incubator gets $12M
21 01 2010NREL’s photovoltaic incubator program will get $12 million in federal funds to help four solar companies move their technology to the manufacturing stage. The three California companies and one North Carolina company are listed in the Denver Business Journal.
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