Tag: Will Toor
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Colorado residents face high energy bills after regulators turn away from natural gas, experts say
Colorado residents could be paying a lot more for home energy, following the state’s decision last week to turn away from natural gas as a home cooking and heating fuel, experts said. Some 1.9 million Colorado households warm their homes each winter using gas. That’s also how tens of thousands of businesses heat their buildings.…
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Colorado’s Energy czar touts costliest path to ‘zero carbon’ electricity
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Energy Office Executive Director Will Toor joined a group of “renewable” energy advocates on a press call recently, arguing that Congress should retain Inflation Reduction Act tax credits for wind, solar, and grid-scale batteries, rather than reallocating the funds to other technologies, including nuclear…
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Xcel Energy making a big push for more renewables
Metro Denver’s biggest utility company is preparing for the acquisition of new energy resources, notably wind and solar power, as part of its efforts to comply with Colorado’s aggressive move away from fossil fuel, according to a news release. Xcel Energy officials said the energy transition will provide reliable and affordable energy to its customers,…
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EDITORIAL: Forced electric cars harm our planet and humanity
California outlawed new gasoline cars last week beginning in 2035. This is the latest in the far-left’s war on minorities, the poor and the environment. Colorado likely will follow suit to further appease the easily fooled “environmental” professional class. “California to Ban the Sale of New Gasoline Cars: The decision … will very likely speed…
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Settlement to close Xcel Energy’s remaining coal plants by 2031 nears approval
A settlement is nearing approval that would speed up Xcel Energy’s transition away from coal and shut down its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2031. In an agreement with 16 parties, including Denver, Pueblo and a host of individual companies and organizations, Xcel agreed to shut down the following coal power plants: Craig Unit 2 in…
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Colorado remains uninterested as much of U.S. turns to nuclear power
The Polis administration appears uninterested in nuclear energy, bucking a growing consensus that nuclear power is an essential component in eliminating carbon emissions. Powering homes by splitting atoms is not part of Gov. Jared Polis’ Greenhouse Gas Roadmap plan for 100% carbon-free energy by 2040. While Will Toor, director of the Colorado Energy Office, said…
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Looking back, look ahead on the Polis agenda
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save At the end of October, the Friday before Election Day, Gov. Jared Polis stood amid a vast swath of southern Colorado evergreens pocked by a masked, socially distanced cadre of politicians and bureaucrats. Of the hundreds of bills he’s signed in the last two years,…