CEES Completes Colorado Energy Profile Website

Colorado Law’s Center for Energy and Environmental Security (CEES) has completed the Colorado Energy Profile, which offers an easy-to-use overview of current power plants, energy policies, and coal and natural gas resources statewide. The project is sponsored by the Governor’s Energy Office.

Viewers can look at energy data in the areas of wind, solar, bioenergy, geothermal, hydro, energy efficiency, system support, and fossil fuel. In addition, for all those resource types, the public can look at federal, state, and local energy trends, law and policies, and environmental emissions. Conceptual mapping is coming soon.

Cathy Proctor, a reporter from the Denver Business Journal, referred to the website as “a powerful tool” in her blog series, "From Earth to Power."

The information is useful to many groups in different ways:

• Homeowners can find incentives for installing on-site renewable energy systems, learn about rights as distributed generators of electricity, and estimate how much power can be produced through certain renewable energy systems.
• Business owners can examine programs and incentives to make operations more energy-efficient and sustainable.
• Policymakers can develop a comprehensive picture of energy laws and assess what new laws and policies might assist Colorado achieve its energy goals.
• Energy researchers and students can explore energy in Colorado by resource.
• Voters can learn about Colorado's energy opportunities and challenges, and what their elected officials have done and could be doing to secure our environmental and energy future.