Educational Resources

Pueblo and Pueblo Renewable Energy Park

• Energy Innovation Report – Flexible, Clean Industry And Sustainable Energy Power Strong Economies: A Case Study in Pueblo, Colorado (April 2025)

  • Video presentation on the Energy Innovation Pueblo Renewable Energy Park.

• Website – Coalition for a Healthy Pueblo

• Website – Roots to Resilience

Xcel JTS Proceeding

• What is the best replacement for Xcel’s Comanche coal-fired power plant in Pueblo? CoPIRG (Oct 2024)

• What’s Xcel Energy’s proposal to replace a large Pueblo coal plant? CoPIRG

• What a New Poll Says About Puebloans Support for Renewable Energy

• Poll

• Xcel Energy – Pueblo Generation Study Report, December 2023

Renewable Energy

• Energy Innovation Analysis. Clean Energy isn’t Driving Power Spikes (July 2024)

Nuclear Power in Pueblo

• Report: Smaller nuclear reactors (SMRs) are a costly dead end, especially for AI. Dr. Joseph Romm. University of Pennsylvania Center for Science, Sustainability, and the Media. April 2025

  • Streaming replay of the media briefing for the report release:

• Recording of a presentation weighing the pros and cons of nuclear energy in Colorado: Nuclear's Promise for Colorado – Hype or Hope?

• Video presentation – Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change, featuring Dr. M.V. Ramana, author of the book by the same name

• Nuclear-Free Pueblo Action Toolkit

• Report – Small Modular Reactors: Still too expensive, too slow and too risky. Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (May 2024)

• Nuclear Hype Ignores High Cost, Long Timelines. Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (Nov 2024)

• Nuclear Power and Climate Action: An Assessment for the Future

• “Advanced" Isn't Always Better: Assessing the Safety, Security, and Environmental Impacts of Non-Light-Water Nuclear Reactors

• Plant Vogtle: the True Cost of Nuclear Power in the United States

• Press Packet for Future of Energy Summit

• Radioactive Effluent and Environmental Reports for nuclear power plants

• The false promise of small modular nuclear reactors

• Nuclear Power is not a Climate Solution

• Nuclear is no Solution

• Small Modular Nuclear Reactors

• Website – Nuclear Information and Resource Service

• New York Nuclear Blueprint, public comments: NIRS and Alliance for a Green Economy

• New York Nuclear Blueprint, public comments: Joint Comment from 226 Climate Organizations

• Public comments on scoping of New York State Energy Plan: NY Renews

Data Centers and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• NRDC: Data Center Electricity Demand Q&A

• Amory Lovins: Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity: Managing the Risks. June 2025