Innovative Companies Along Interstate 25 Corridor Offer Clean-Energy Solutions
Published Nov 19, 2008
Energy derived from green, clean, renewable sources is in growing demand, and innovative companies in the Metro North Region are helping to meet it.
According to area business leaders, more than 40 renewable-energy companies have opened in Weld County and elsewhere along northern Colorado’s Interstate 25 corridor in recent years.
“Whereas renewable energy is not yet big business in northern Colorado, there is a lot of diversity in its commercial applications,” says Larry Burkhardt, president and chief executive officer of Upstate Colorado Economic Development.
For example, UQM Technologies in Frederick began making battery electric cars in the 1970s. Today the company focuses on power systems for electric, hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles, and it has secured technology-development contracts with the U.S. military and London’s municipal bus system, Burkhardt says.
Farther north, Ice Energy Inc. of Windsor uses energy storage technology and its Ice Bear 30 Hybrid Air Conditioner to reduce energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
The company, which has served commercial customers since 2003, launched a residential product line in 2008.
Front Range Energy LLC, also founded in Windsor in 2003, operates a 40-million-gallon, dry-mill ethanol plant.
Story by Carol Cowan
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