Boy, do we love (the idea of) renewable energy in Colorado.
We’re home to the National Renewable Energy Institute and the Leeds School
of Business at CU that has developed a whole renewable entrepreneurship
program. Colorado is is the address of numerous renewable start-ups. There’s
enough green-loving people in this state to damn near peddle our way to
power generation (except we’d have to drive our gas-guzzling SUVs to get to
the bike path).
Recently oil prices surged to more than $75 per barrel. As each precious
barrel of former carbon deposits gets used up and the rest of the supply
becomes dearer, the cost of renewable energy becomes more “affordable” by
comparison.
But what business people want to know, is; how can you make money in
renewable energy? Can Colorado small business people get involved with this
industry, or would investing time and money in renewable business ideas turn
them into modern-day versions of Don Quixote, tilting at windmills in Lamar,
Colorado, and being gouged on the bleeding edge of technology?
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