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The environment desk at Aspen Public Radio covers issues in the Roaring Fork Valley and throughout the state of Colorado including water use and quality, impact of recreation, population growth and oil and gas development. APR’s Environment Reporter is Elizabeth Stewart-Severy.

Aspen continues to buy wind, landfill gas energy from Nebraska

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The City of Aspen will continue to get some of its renewable energy from a nonprofit based in Nebraska.

 

 

Aspen plans to buy wind energy and landfill gas from the Municipal Energy Agency of Nebraska for another year. The city first contracted with the wholesaler in 2014; those multi-year contracts expire at the end of December. In a memo to council, officials said the new, shorter-term contracts will allow for faster responses to trends in renewable energy and price fluctuations.

Aspen has committed to purchasing 100 percent of its electrical needs from renewable sources. The combined cost of the wind and landfill gas energy from Nebraska comes to about $2.3 million.

 

Aspen native Elizabeth Stewart-Severy is excited to be making a return to both the Red Brick, where she attended kindergarten, and the field of journalism. She has spent her entire life playing in the mountains and rivers around Aspen, and is thrilled to be reporting about all things environmental in this special place. She attended the University of Colorado with a Boettcher Scholarship, and graduated as the top student from the School of Journalism in 2006. Her lifelong love of hockey lead to a stint working for the Colorado Avalanche, and she still plays in local leagues and coaches the Aspen Junior Hockey U-19 girls.
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