EIN News: Colorado Energy News

HelioVolt, NREL Win R&D 100 Award for Thin Film Solar Printing Process

24 Jul 2008 09:35 GMT

... a producer of highly-efficient thin film solar energy products, today announced that it has garnered ... and products that will make clean, renewable power a significant portion of our nation's energy ... cost process. Confirmed through independent testing at Colorado State University, FASST has been proven to ...

Springs Utilities Encourages Reduced Energy Use

24 Jul 2008 07:08 GMT

... COLORADO SPRINGS - Temperatures once again reached the ... making sure it can keep providing the power to keep that cool air coming. "We ... demand," says Drew Rankin, General Manager of Energy Supply for Springs Utilities. Heat can actually ...

Things you didn't know about oil shale

24 Jul 2008 07:05 GMT

... planes, trains and automobiles don't run on electricity; they run on oil - mostly foreign ... Democrats respond by shutting down America's own energy supplies. Now at the mercy of foreign ... most aggressive competitors and even our enemies. Colorado, Wyoming and Utah have more oil in ...

Ken Salazar offers bill on aid for nuke workers

24 Jul 2008 06:59 GMT

... The federal program to compensate sick nuclear weapons workers needs a complete overhaul, Sen. ... needs a complete overhaul, Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., said Wednesday. Salazar said he will introduce ... introduce today the Compensation and Respect for Energy Workers Act of 2008, or the CARE ...

Draft Oil Shale Regulations: Rhetoric vs. Reality

24 Jul 2008 06:58 GMT

... moratorium on commercial leasing regulations is preventing energy companies from developing oil shale. * Reality: ... 36,000 acres of oil shale lands in Colorado - containing tens of billions of oil ... require investing billions of dollars in new power plants. *"Producing 100,000 barrels per day requires ...

The GOP Energy Plan: 'All Too Familiar'

24 Jul 2008 06:58 GMT

... -- HOUSE SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI THE GOP ENERGY PLAN: 'ALL TOO FAMILIAR' Eight months after ... 2.3 million acres of public lands in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming for tar shale development ... enormous electricity and water are needed to power the operation. It takes about three barrels ...

New way to heat hot tubs and showers

24 Jul 2008 06:55 GMT

... produced at its wastewater treatment plant. AVON, Colorado Dumping more than 600 pounds of ... the Avon Recreation Center is the biggest energy glutton in town. That could change with ... the snowiest, coldest hours, Vandenburgh said. Wind power At the beginning of the year, Avon ...

Sheriff, police chief eye hybrids for Glenwood Springs, Garfield County

24 Jul 2008 06:37 GMT

... to lower county gas expenditures. GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario supports ... absolutely in favor of hybrid vehicles, alternative energy anything we can do, he said ... into hybrids and wonders how well hybrid electric systems would hold up to 24-hour use. ...

Two different artists bring country/rock style to the Lowcountry this weekend

24 Jul 2008 06:31 GMT

... RYAN CARTWRIGHT Keith Ryan Cartwright is a Colorado-based freelance entertainment journalist.

Family physician was an advocate for change at JPS

24 Jul 2008 06:29 GMT

... It’s what kept him going — the power of wanting to be part of something ... him." After earning his bachelor’s degree at Colorado State University and his medical degree at ... teaching them things like welding, plumbing and electrical work, raising cattle and how to do ...

Study: State outlook grim for warming

24 Jul 2008 06:26 GMT

... hit agriculture in states like Kansas and Colorado. In addition, invasive species tend to increase ... year over whether to add new coal-fired power plants in Kansas fails to include the ... is we talk about coal plants and energy export but there is no discussion about ...

Cancer center warns of cell phone risks

24 Jul 2008 05:35 GMT

... occur," Muscat said. Cell phones emit radiofrequency energy, a type of radiation that is a ... from his cell phone, the professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder said he takes no special ...

Director of cancer center warns of cell phone risks

24 Jul 2008 05:20 GMT

Power In The Air

24 Jul 2008 04:32 GMT

... A sweet wind is tickling GE Energy these days. GE Energy is the leading ... generate 20% of its electricity through wind power within a decade. Those goals sound audacious. ... the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., scientists have improved blade design, increased efficiency ...

GOP candidates confront Ritter about energy

24 Jul 2008 04:32 GMT

... for focus on renewable resources DENVER - Energy and gas prices will be a campaign ... back wildlife-protection rules under consideration by the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. Sen. Greg ... Ritter said he hopes Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., can get an amendment passed to delay ...