Over McClure Pass, between Hotchkiss and Delta, one of the nation’s most innovative photovoltaic power projects is complete and will have a grand opening Sept. 30. It will be the largest solar farm on Colorado’s Western Slope. The Garnet Mesa Solar project has tracking photovoltaic panels over 400 acres of former cattle pasture, but now […]
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Third Street Center gets a boost
Martín Bonzi works for Clean Energy Economy for the Region (CLEER), a nonprofit with offices at the Third Street Center. He also drives an electric vehicle (EV), which is appropriate given his role proselytizing EV adoption in 14 northwestern Colorado counties as CLEER’s transportation program manager. As such, Bonzi was delighted to see come to […]
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Truly electrifying: Heat pump retrofits make net zero attainable
“Heat Pumps, heat pumps, that’s the key,” declares Marty Treadway, program director of the Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE). This is the sort of adamant answer he gives homeowners who ask, what equipment can be installed to lower residential utility bills, and preferably, not destroy the planet? The next question is, what’s a heat […]