Welcome to Colorado Current

My dad spent nearly two decades running a solar and wind installation company in Ohio. He built systems on farms, factories, schools, and contaminated brownfields. He testified before the legislature. He went on public radio to make the case for clean energy.

The state of Ohio spent most of that time making his job harder than it needed to be. Permitting fights, gutted incentives, customers who wanted to do the right thing but couldn't make the numbers work. The technology was ready but the political headwinds were too strong.

That's not the story in Colorado.

Here the governor, the legislature, and the clean energy industry are moving in the same direction. There are fusion companies running prototype lasers in Denver, startups electrifying industrial boilers in Loveland, geothermal wells drilled deep into Weld County, and software companies in Boulder helping utilities manage the grid as EVs come online. Colorado became the first state in the country to write short and long-term emissions reduction targets into law. The ecosystem is real and it's growing.

It's also running behind. The state is about two years short of its 2025 emissions targets. Transportation emissions remain stubbornly high. Federal rollbacks have complicated the picture. The gap between Colorado's legal commitments and its current trajectory is real.

That tension — between genuine momentum and the hard work still left — is exactly why this space is worth covering seriously. Colorado doesn't need a cheerleader. It needs honest, specific, data-backed coverage of what's working, what isn't, and who's building the solutions.

That's what Colorado Current is for.

— Evan