From the Glenwood Springs Post Independent (John Colson):
The free workshop, which is sponsored by the Colorado Governor’s Energy Office, is scheduled for Sept. 8 at the Glenwood Springs Community Center, 100 Wulfsohn Road, from 2:45-6:30 p.m. “It’s an educational event for the community,” said Joani Matranga of Carbondale, who is the GEO’s Western Slope representative. “The hope is that the community will think about how they should take some steps forward in terms of geothermal.”[…]
“Most of the Colorado hot springs communities are now considering ways to expand geothermal uses to reduce their fuel use, long-term costs and impacts,” wrote John Gitchell of Sustainable Business Solutions in Eagle. Matranga conceded that geothermal heating, cooling and electric generation systems are “definitely more difficult to implement” than other alternative energy technologies, such as solar or wind generators…
The workshop will feature talks by Matranga, Francisco Flores, also of the GEO; Paul Morgan with the Colorado Geological Survey; geologist Mike Galloway of ERO Resources; and Kevin G. Rein, an engineer with the Colorado Division of Water Resources.
To learn more about Glenwood Springs’ potential for geothermal, the city has posted the Lund report on its website, www.cogs.us.
More geothermal coverage here.