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Electric Vehicle Charging
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Pilot program in Colorado involving 600 EV owners will study how charging can best be matched with availability of wind and other renewable power

By By Allen Best | October 18, 2021

By 2030, Colorado hopes to have nearly a million electric vehicles on the road. But to fuel them cheaply will require an ample supply of renewable energy. That’s the fundamental challenge being explored by Charging Perks, an Xcel Energy’s pilot program.

Climate change

Katharine Hayhoe on how to change ‘us’ and ‘them’ in climate into ‘saving us’

By By Allen Best | October 18, 2021

It’s hard to image the climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe getting grouchy. I’ve seen her twice in person and also in video presentations, most recently on Sept. 23 via a Zoomed video interview sponsored by the Vail Symposium. She’s bubbly and funny, always brimming with good cheer. Hayhoe can talk science deeply because, after all, she has a PhD.

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