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Renewable Energy

This category includes stories about renewable energy, which comes from natural sources or processes that are constantly replenished.

Renewable Energy

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.

Renewable Energy

CU PhD student makes key renewable energy discovery

By Jared Fiel | October 4, 2021

A discovery by a CU PhD Student may be the first step toward solving a key problem involved in harnessing and reusing energy expelled from the earth. “What I have done is prove a theory in a physical concept,” said PhD student Amina Belkadi. “Everything else is for others to do,”