Colorado’s Dream of “Clean Energy” Sabotaged by Pot Growers.
What effect does pot-smoking have on green energy fantasies? Scope for a government-funded survey there perhaps
Originally posted on American Elephants:
Steven Hayward noted a recent story from the Denver Post at Powerline. It seems that surging electricity consumption by Colorado’s new marijuana industry is sabotaging Denver’s push to use less energy—as urged by the White House’s Clean Power Plan to shut down coal-fired power plants because carbon pollution.
Citywide electricity use has been rising at the rate of 1.2 percent a year, and 45 percent of that increase comes from marijuana-growing facilities, Denver officials said Wednesday.
Denver has a goal of capping energy use at 2012 levels. Electricity is a big part of that.
The latest Xcel Energy data show cannabis grow facilities statewide, the bulk of which are in Denver, used as much as 200 million kilowatt hours of electricity in 2014, utility officials said. City officials said 354 grow facilities in Denver used about 121 million kwh in 2013, up from 86 million kwh at 351 facilities in…
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Source: https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/colorados-dream-of-clean-energy-sabotaged-by-pot-growers/
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