Speakers

Bill Ritter is the governor of Colorado, and he has established the state as a national and international leader on energy issues. By maximizing Colorado’s traditional and renewable energy resources, he is crafting a statewide energy plan, diversifying Colorado’s energy portfolio, creating new economic and job opportunities, and addressing environmental challenges such as climate change. He has doubled Colorado’s renewable energy standard, requiring that 20 percent of the state’s electricity come from renewable sources by 2020, and he issued the state’s first climate action plan. He is also attracting new alternative-energy companies, investments, and research to Colorado and has forged stronger relationships with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Other advancements include quadrupling the state’s wind capacity and opening new solar projects around the state.