Mark Jaffe
Energy Writer at Freelance
Writer at Summit Daily News
Colorado Sun energy writer keeping on eye on the the sun, wind and what's below ground while hiking up peaks and skiing down slopes. Former Denver Postie
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1 week ago |
coloradosun.com | Mark Jaffe
The coal-fired Craig Station is still set to close in 2028 — even as the Trump administration is making a drive to keep coal units going — according to the operator’s electric resource plan filed with Colorado utility regulators on April 11. Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, which runs the plant, says in its preferred plan that the Craig Unit 1 will close by the end of this year and units 2 and 3 will be shuttered in 2028.
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1 week ago |
euci.com | Mark Jaffe |Jim Vess
By Mark Jaffe, EUCI energy writerThe Trump administration’s goal of “energy dominance” and its mantra of “drill, baby, drill” have run into production limitations, economic uncertainty caused by the administration’s tariff policies, and increased output from OPEC+. In his first weeks in office, President Donald Trump issued executive orders to speed permitting, reduce regulations, and open more federal land to drilling.
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2 weeks ago |
coloradosun.com | Mark Jaffe
Colorado electricity utilities — from the largest investor-owned corporation to rural electric cooperatives — are straining to meet reliability standards and state clean energy mandates as they face cost-spiraling economics and the threat of tariffs.
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3 weeks ago |
coloradosun.com | Mark Jaffe
The Trump administration is looking to locate a private data center and power plant on land in Boulder County owned by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as part of a broader plan to site such facilities at 16 national laboratories. “Private data center companies, that’s where the capital is, that’s where the investment is and on federal land, we make a commercial arrangement with them,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said at a NREL press conference Thursday.
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3 weeks ago |
coloradosun.com | Mark Jaffe
The Trump administration has released $3.2 billion in funds for six Colorado rural electric cooperatives and the Tri-State Generation Transmission Association after a two-month freeze — with perhaps a catch. The co-ops and Tri-State can stick with their original grant proposals or offer modifications to their Empowering Rural America, or New ERA, loans and grants to comply with President Donald Trump’s Unleashing American Energy executive order.
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A story oft repeated. I used Twitter as a reporting tool to connect on environmental and energy issues and to folo other journalists, but my feed is now filled with a lot of bull. I am heading over to bluesky
This is insane. Denialism in its highest form. “The concerns about overtopping are not just hypothetical,” said the former deput director of the LSU Hurricane Center https://t.co/9sl2VPnTeZ
The data center boom and its demand for energy and water is creeping into Colorado. https://t.co/OAKXK7lv8A