Alternative energy - The Journal

Animas High School graduates’ adventure underway in solar car

Teens prepare their solar car to safety standards for race from Texas to Minnesota

DATE: Jul 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Education

Can the feds save eagles by allowing more to be killed?

Fish and Wildlife Service hopes proposal will entice energy developers to obtain permits for eagle deaths

DATE: May 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Solar gardens are expanding slowly in the West

Legislative barriers to more widespread community solar remain

DATE: May 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez solar panels will benefit low-income households

Students join Empire Electric effort to aid low- and moderate-income residents

DATE: Apr 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Clean Power Plan stay spurs enviros into action

It’s hard to overstate the high that environmentalists were feeling as this year began. President Obama had finally rejected the Keystone XL pipeline that they had fought against for years. ...

DATE: Mar 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Is Clean Power Plan out of reach?

Experts say emissions targets are attainable, but uncertainty over how to get there remains.

DATE: Mar 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

A small alternative

Relaxed rules around hydropower helps generate a buzz in Southwest Colorado

DATE: Feb 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Biomass proposal updated

A Pagosa Springs real estate man and land manager for out-of-area owners updated La Plata Electric Association board members Wednesday on plans to turn trees and forest debris into electrici...

DATE: Dec 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Hydro plant gets go-ahead

Project is first of its kind in state

DATE: Dec 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Town stalls on solar proposal

A plan to treat drinking water using the sun was met with silence last week by Mancos officials. After town officials were presented with a proposal to install a 60-kilowatt DC ph...

DATE: Aug 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Mancos weighs solar savings

Only obligation would be to purchase power

DATE: Aug 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Tri-State lobbies gov. to veto renewables mandate

DENVER – The company that supplies coal-powered electricity to rural Colorado is waging a media campaign to try to convince Gov. John Hickenlooper to veto a renewable energy bill. ...

DATE: May 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business