BLM is set to offer oil and gas leases on 400,000 acres of public land in Colorado this year, about the same acreage as Rocky Mountain National Park and the Colodo side of Dinosaur National Monument combined coloradosun.com/2026/09/08/b...

Colorado faces a federal oil and gas leasing fire sale. One man on a Moffat County mountain is fighting back.

By the time mandatory December lease sales are finished, arounds 400,000 acres of land in Colorado will have been offered for exploration

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The BLM is set to offer more than 400,000 acres of oil and gas leases on public land in Colorado this year, about the same acerage as Rocky Mountain National Park and the Colorado side Dinosaur National Monument combined. coloradosun.com/2026/09/08/b...

Colorado faces a federal oil and gas leasing fire sale. One man on a Moffat County mountain is fighting back.

By the time mandatory December lease sales are finished, arounds 400,000 acres of land in Colorado will have been offered for exploration

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The war with Iran has given US helium production a boost but not a boom.

Colorado helium reserves got big boost when war with Iran cut off 30% of the world’s supply

Southeastern Colorado has been producing helium for two decades, but when the Strait of Hormuz was closed, it suddenly became more valuable

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Solar developers find tough sledding in some Colorado counites, but county and municipal officials fear a new Colorado Energy Office report on energy infrastructure siting is a prelude to an effort by the take primacy in approval project siting. coloradosun.com/2025/10/20/s...

Pushback by counties on solar projects is challenging climate goals, Colorado officials say

Colorado Energy Office research was tailored to aid governor in dictating solar siting, much as he has done with housing, trade groups say

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Fifteen companies are working on small modular reactors in the U.S. Many will fail, one proponent says. In fact they have to so there's a winner or winners who can build on scale. SMRs may be the technology of the future, but not a solution to pressing power needs. coloradosun.com/2025/09/15/s...

Small modular nuclear reactors are having a moment. Will they arrive in time for Pueblo?

Feds, the state, cities, counties, companies are looking at next-gen nuclear power. But no small modular reactors have been built in the US.

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Pueblo County, Colorado is asking President Trump to order Xcel's Comanche coal-fired power plant to keep running until an adequate replacement is in place. The county says only a small modular nuclear reactor will "make it whole." coloradosun.com/2025/09/02/c...

Pueblo County to President Trump: Keep our coal-burning Comanche Station making power indefinitely.

Big economic impacts are on the line as deadline to close Comanche nears. Pueblo County wonders if is punished for twice voting for Donald Trump.

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The West has wind and solar resources what it doesn't have is transmission lines and it is a battle to build them. Especially true for Colorado which is the most isolated part of the Western Interconnection. coloradosun.com/2025/06/08/c...

Electric gridlock: Can the growing West's infrastructure evolve fast enough to keep the lights on?

A growing population, data centers, cryptocurrency mines, the electrification of manufacturing are all boosting electricity demand

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"If we have the power to turn another planet into Earth, then we have the power to turn Earth back into Earth." - Neil deGrasse-Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com

A coal-fired plant delay is a plant delayed. Seeing rising electricity costs and demand PacifiCorp delays the closure of four Wyo coal-fired plants, though a couple will be converted to natural gas. A real tension emerging between cost/demand and GHG reductions. cowboystatedaily.com/2025/01/08/r...

Rocky Mountain Power To Cancel Planned Retirements Of Its Wyoming Coal Plants

Rocky Mountain Power announced last week that it’s cancelling the retirements of its Wyoming coal-fired power plants. But that doesn’t mean they’ll be…

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UMass Political Economy Research Institute Toxic 100 Air Polluters and 100 Water Polluters. Big companies are the big polluters, no suprise. What is telling is that the majority of the pollution, up to 97%, is borne by poor communities. peri.umass.edu/toxic-100-wa... peri.umass.edu/toxic-100-ai...

From Wood Mackenzie: “Never has the world witnessed the pace of growth or transformation of an energy system that China is currently achieving,” said Wood Mackenzie's Malcom Forbes-Cable. “By 2025, China's installed solar and wind capacity will exceed that of both Europe and North America.”

Last week Meta put out an RFP for nuclear plants to power its data centers. Google is looking to colocate renewable generation with its centers. There's also talk of colocating gas turbines. It looks like tech is seeing that it can't depend on the grid. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Google plans to build gigawatts of clean power and data centers…

Can tech giants overcome grid bottlenecks by locating data centers near new wind, solar, and battery projects? Google and Intersect Power intend to give…

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Meta is looking to twin its data centers with nuclear power plants. Meanwhile, Chevron CEO has floated the idea of dedicated gas plants - off the grid - to power data centers. Looks like the industry knows it has a problem www.utilitydive.com/news/meta-se...

Meta seeks up to 4 GW of new nuclear power to help meet AI, sustainability objectives

The Facebook and Instagram parent aims to deploy new nuclear generation capacity to power its data centers beginning in the early 2030s, it said Tuesday.

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Too much of a good thing? Xcel Energy ran out of money for its commercial energy efficiency programs, its EV rebates and now its residential battery rebates. Colo PUC today okayed moving $6.8 million from commercial solar to cover applications. Xcel says it's demand. Critics says it's management

How will the Trump administration affect pubic lands in Colorado? Two hard fought battles to limit oil and gas drilling in the Thompson Divide and the Uncompaghre are targets. State remediation and wildlife corridor priorities may also be at odds with new BLM guidance.

The energy transition. Ce n'est pas bon marche. The Colorado PUC is wrestling with projections from Xcel Energy that it will need $40 billion in new transmission and $42 billion in new distribution in the next 20 years + a $12.5 billion Clean Energy Plan + another 6.9 GW of new generation.