Members of our Community Editorial Board, a group of community residents who are engaged with and passionate about local issues, respond to the following question: Xcel plans to retire the last of its coal power plants, Comanche 3, by 2030. The move will usher in a new reliance on clean energy for 1.5 million people across Colorado, including Boulder County. Your take?
Only the most obstinate climate change-denial fossil still thinks coal is good. But its demise is no panacea: The “clean energy” sources we will rely on after coal is buried in history have their own issues to face.
There is more to evaluating energy sources like solar and wind than just the amount of carbon they release. How efficient are they? What are their by-products, and thus their impact? How expensive are they? How safe is the underlying technology? The answer to these and other questions must be…
Community Editorial Board: Colorado’s clean energy future
