Analysis
Company spotlights, industry deep-dives, and policy analysis covering Colorado's clean energy ecosystem.
Oil and Gas Is Colorado's Secret Climate Win. Buildings Aren't.
Part 2 of our sector-by-sector emissions series: the surprise success story nobody talks about, a building electrification lawsuit Denver just won, and the sector nobody's really fighting for at all.
The Grid Got Cleaner. The Roads Didn't.
In 2023, for the first time in Colorado's history, cars and trucks became our biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions. Not because transportation got worse. Because we finally cleaned up the grid.
Colorado Is Already Two Years Behind on Its Climate Targets
In 2019 Colorado became the first state to write emissions reduction targets into law. Seven years later it's running two years behind all of them, and the gap between ambition and reality is getting harder to explain away.
Welcome to Colorado Current
My dad spent 20 years fighting to install solar in Ohio. I grew up watching the technology lose to politics. Colorado is a different story.