Nuclear power is officially a clean energy source in Colorado. Not . . . Nuclear energy is not banned in Colorado, and nuclear power plants have been proposed as recently as last fall “House Bill 1040 is not — is not — a mandate, nor does it require that a city or a utility use nuclear energy,” Sen Larry Liston, a Colorado Springs Republican, said during a Senate committee hearing March 10
Panel explores if Colorado is ready to go nuclear | Energy . . . And investment in nuclear energy — and public policy investigations — are on the rise, he said The Colorado General Assembly passed legislation in 2023 to require the state's energy office to study advanced energy solutions for southeastern and northwestern Colorado, including nuclear
State legislation: Colorado redefines nuclear as “clean energy resource . . . Signers included the Sierra Club of Colorado, Clean Energy Action, and the Colorado Renewable Energy Society “The idea that nuclear power is a clean energy source could not be further from the truth,” the letter states “Nuclear power is the only energy resource that generates dangerous waste that will remain radioactive for thousands of
Colorado will recognize nuclear power as a ‘clean’ energy source after . . . Colorado will add nuclear power to its portfolio of potential “clean energy” sources after Gov Jared Polis approved a bill from the state legislature The governor’s office on Monday said Polis had signed into law House Bill 1040 , which puts nuclear power on par with wind, solar, hydroelectric and geothermal energy in terms of being a
Polis signs law to promote nuclear-energy development in Colorado Colorado Gov Jared Polis signed a bill Monday that redefines nuclear energy as clean energy under state law, opening the market significantly to potential power projects and defying a wide range of environmental organizations that had sought a veto The signing of HB 1040 doesn’t mean that Colorado will become home to nuclear projects
IssueBrief - Colorado General Assembly Nuclear Energy in Colorado Currently, Colorado does not have any nuclear power plants or any plans for future power plants According to the Colorado Energy Office (CEO), the state’s only nuclear generating facility, Fort St Vrain, generated electricity from 1976 to 1989 Today the facility, which is located near Platteville,
Colorado Passes Law Classifying Nuclear Energy as Clean Energy Source This legislative session, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed a bill that adds nuclear energy to the state’s clean energy portfolio The law makes nuclear power eligible for new government projects that require the use of clean resources and allows nuclear energy to count towards the state’s climate goal of net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
Nuclear as clean energy clears Colorado Senate, goes to Gov. Polis It also determines which energy resources may be used by a qualifying retail utility to meet Colorado’s ambitious and ever-increasingly expensive goal of 100 percent renewable energy by 2040 Two previous attempts by Republicans to include nuclear as a state-sanctioned energy source failed in the Democrat-dominated legislature