Paul Spencer, founder and president of the Clean Energy Collective, stands before a solar array at the Boulder Cowdrey Meadows solar garden just outside of Superior. (Cyrus McCrimmon, Denver Post file)
Re: Feb. 1 editorial.
Yes, you are correct. Colorado is a leader in renewable/alternative energies. But what you fail to understand is Colorado is bigger than you realize. So many people, in their vision for our state, forget that Utah, not the Continental Divide, is our western border.
The state’s first renewable-energy standard set the bar high, to the point that rural Colorado is being strangled by much higher electric rates. Small business is suffering, businesses are closing, people are having to leave their homes.
Western Colorado legislators have no choice but to attempt to repeal or amend Colorado’s rules. As a Western Slope small-business owner, I need the hobbles removed to survive.
Brad Tutor,Gunnison
This letter was published in the Feb. 8 edition.
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