Colorado


Book Description

This document highlights the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's investments and impacts in the state of Colorado.







Colorado


Book Description

This document highlights the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's investments and impacts in the state of Colorado.




Colorado's Clean Energy Choices (Booklet).


Book Description

The daily choices that we make as consumers affects the environment and our economy. Based on the state of today's technology and economics, Colorado consumers can include energy efficiency and renewable energy into many aspects of our lives. These choices include where we obtain our electricity from, how we use energy at home, and how we transport ourselves from one place to another. In additionto outlining how we can use clean energy, Coloraodo's Clean Energy Choices gives consumers contacts and links to Web sites for where to get more information.




Colorado's Clean Energy Choices


Book Description

The daily choices made as consumers affect the environment and the economy. Based on the state of today's technology and economics, Colorado consumers can include energy efficiency and renewable energy into many aspects of their lives. These choices include where they obtain electricity, how they use energy at home, and how they transport themselves from one place to another. In addition to outlining how they can use clean energy, Colorado's Clean Energy Choices gives consumers contacts and links to Web sites for where to get more information.




Energy Imbalance Market Options for Colorado


Book Description

The present study uses the WIS:dom®-P optimization model to investigate the energy imbalance market options available to Colorado and evaluate the benefits and costs of participating in each. The study also evaluates the impact of Colorado not joining any energy imbalance market and creating a state-wide Joint Dispatch Agreement (JDA) between all Colorado utilities and cooperatives. A unique component of the study is that it evaluates the benefits and costs over an evolving system from 2018 through 2040, rather than a single future year. Overall the study indicates that Colorado does better (in terms of retail rates, jobs, capacity, emissions) when it acts in a unified manner. Splitting the utilities and moving to different EIM structures provides the least benefit to Colorado and exposes the state to competition from resources both east and west that encumbers the local resource pool. Further, Colorado brings enormous additional benefits to the region that it joins.




Colorado Electrification & Decarbonization Study


Book Description

The present study finds that electrifying transportation and heating (along with some other sectors) while decarbonizing the Colorado electricity sector will enable the reduction of economy-wide GHG emissions to below 70% of 2005 levels by 2040, while lowering both electricity and energy costs for all Coloradans. Personal vehicle fuel costs are reduced by over $600 per year (if an EV is used), household heating fuel costs are reduced by over $500 when electrified. In addition, all electricity rates are lowered by 15%, meaning those that do not electrify also benefits with lower costs amounting to $98 per year. The reduction in GHG emissions equates to Colorado exceeding all its target in HB19-1261 through 2040. The electrification of transportation and heating becomes essential in helping lower economy-wide emissions in an affordable manner. Their additions provides flexibility within the electricity grid over Colorado, which can enable more variable renewable energy sources.




Denver, Colorado: Solar in Action (Brochure)


Book Description

This brochure provides an overview of the challenges and successes of Denver, Colorado, a 2008 Solar America City awardee, on the path toward becoming a solar-powered community. Accomplishments, case studies, key lessons learned, and local resource information are given.







Connecting Colorado's Renewable Resources to the Markets in a Carbon-constrained Electricity Sector


Book Description

The REDI Report, Connecting Colorado's Renewable Resources to the Markets in a Carbon-Constrained Electricity Sector, is an analysis of the issues facing Colorado's electric power sector as it strives to meet the goal of a 20% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2020 from a 2005 base. The REDI report addresses a variety of topics, including: Baseline information regarding Colorado's generation and transmission infrastructure, with an emphasis on large-scale renewable energy generation. A history of Colorado's electricity sector, including electric demand, planning, policy, and regulation. The roles that different combinations of supply-side resources, demand-side resources, and transmission can play to meet carbon dioxide reduction goals. A description of transmission economics, finance, regulatory, and market issues, particularly within a regional framework. Plans for expansion of Colorado's high-voltage transmission system. The local, state, and federal roles in permitting and siting large renewable energy projects and transmission. The opportunities stemming from new Federal funding and policy initiatives. Options for further examination to increase the connection of Colorado's utility-scale renewable resources to the grid.