“Energy isn’t a luxury,” Colorado Springs Utilities CEO Travas Deal recently told my Power Gab co-host Jake Fogleman and me. His concern? The direction of Colorado’s energy policy — away from affordable, reliable baseload power and toward costly, intermittent wind and solar.
He’s right. Reliable power is not optional. It’s a matter of life and death. We saw that in Texas during 2021’s Winter Storm Uri when 246 people died amid rolling blackouts that nearly triggered a catastrophic grid collapse.
We’re seeing blackouts in Colorado, too. At the same time, the cost of power in Colorado is skyrocketing. Residential rates have increased over 85% since 2003, greater than inflation.
Yet, Democrat Gov. Jared Polis is doubling down on this dangerous trajectory to enshrine his unrealistic campaign…
