{"id":1865,"date":"2010-06-17T14:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2010-06-18T20:43:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T02:43:29","slug":"mobilize-for-boulders-clean-energy-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=1865","title":{"rendered":"Mobilize for Boulder&#8217;s Clean Energy Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cea_logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1873\" title=\"cea_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cea_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cea_logo.png 366w, http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/cea_logo-300x68.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boulder&#8217;s energy future is being decided right now &#8211; and community involvement in the decision-making process is crucial.\u00a0 Xcel&#8217;s 20-year franchise agreement with the City of Boulder is set to expire on August 3rd, 2010.\u00a0 With negotiations underway between the Boulder City Council, Xcel, and a team of energy professionals from the Boulder community, the most important objective is a cost-effective decarbonization of Boulder and an increase in the availability of renewables such as wind and solar.\u00a0 With these goals in mind, there are a number of options that exist, including:\u00a0 putting a new 20-year franchise with Xcel on the November ballot, extending the current franchise agreement and continuing negotiations with Xcel, or not signing a new franchise agreement at all and considering options such as municipalization.<\/p>\n<p>The Boulder City Council is inviting the larger community to a series of open houses this Monday and next Tuesday (see schedules <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/2010\/06\/13\/city-open-house-on-energy-future\/\" target=\"_self\">here <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/2010\/06\/13\/city-open-house-on-energy-future-2\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>) to discuss our energy future and to encourage public participation in the decision-making process as the current Xcel franchise expires.\u00a0 The voice of the community and their vision for the future of energy production are incredibly important and will have a large impact on how the Boulder City Council decides to move forward in negotiations with Xcel and the pursuit of a clean and safe energy future for Boulder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boulder&#8217;s energy future is being decided right now &#8211; and community involvement in the decision-making process is crucial.\u00a0 Xcel&#8217;s 20-year franchise agreement with the City of Boulder is set to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":1884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[42,45,101],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-call-to-action","tag-climate-action","tag-energy","tag-xcel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}