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Fort Collins, Platte River Power Authority want your feedback on their environmental goals

Jacy Marmaduke
The Coloradoan

Fort Collins and Platte River Power Authority want to hear what you think about the city's climate goals and the power provider's plans for the future.

The city is hosting a series of community conversations to help inform its "Our Climate Future" planning effort, a project to update Fort Collins' Climate Action Plan, Energy Policy and Road to Zero Waste initiative. Meanwhile, Fort Collins power provider Platte River Power Authority is holding a series of listening sessions to offer an update and seek feedback about its 2020 Integrated Resource Plan.

Platte River’s delivered electricity to Fort Collins, Loveland, Estes Park and Longmont is about 30% renewable. By 2021, it will be about 50% renewable after the addition of new wind and solar resources.

Platte River's IRP will set the path for the next five years as the power provider moves toward its goal of achieving a 100% noncarbon electricity mix by 2030.

Meanwhile, Fort Collins is updating its plans to achieve goals of carbon neutrality by 2050, 100% renewable electricity by 2030 and zero waste by 2030.

Here's the time and place for each event:

City of Fort Collins events

Oct. 24 (resident focused)

  • Senior Center, Prairie Sage 2
  • 4:30 to 5:45 p.m., prior to Integrated Resource Plan listening session hosted by Platte River Power Authority

Nov. 12 (business focused)

  • DC Oakes Brewhouse and Eatery
  • 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 20 (business focused)

  • Innosphere
  • 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Dec. 4 (resident focused)

  • Wolverine Farm Letterpress & Publick House
  • 6 to 7:30 p.m.

RSVP at ourcity.fcgov.com/ourclimatefuture.

PRPA events

Oct. 16

  • Longmont Museum, Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont
  • 6-9 p.m.

Oct. 17

  • Rialto Theater Center, Devereaux Room, 228 E. Fourth St., Loveland
  • 6-9 p.m.

Oct. 23

  • Ridgeline Hotel, Ballroom/Salon F, 101 S. Saint Vrain Ave., Estes Park
  • 6-9 p.m.

Oct. 24

  • Senior Center, Prairie Sage I & II, 1200 Raintree Drive, Fort Collins
  • 6-9 p.m. (after Fort Collins' Our Climate Future community conversation)

Jacy Marmaduke covers government accountability for the Coloradoan. Follow her on Twitter @jacymarmaduke. Support stories like this one with a digital subscription to the Coloradoan.