RECENT STORIES

Highlands Ranch Photo Club ( Kristin Hayek )
Gardening Through the Seasons ( Kristin Hayek )
Spare Parts: Teen Battle of the Bands ( Kristin Hayek )
Your Vote Matters at Douglas County Libraries ( Kristin Hayek )
New VA clinic closer to home for DC veterans ( Douglas County )

share a story | more postings »

YourHub.com \\ Highlands Ranch \\ Stories \\ News \\ General News

Governor Ritter visits ThunderRidge HS

e-mail to a friend | print this | link to this

NEXT › ‹ PREVIOUS

Contributed by: steve taraborelli on 4/28/2008

Governor Ritter attends the ThunderRidge High School Energy City of Highlands Ranch Press Conference

On April 24, 2008, ThunderRidge High School (TRHS) conducted the second annual Clean Tech Energy Day event that consisted of an alternative fuel auto display, energy presentations conducted by local energy experts and a press conference.

TRHS senior, Will Palamet made the announcement at the press conference that after a unanimous vote by the 16 seniors taken a couple of weeks ago, they decided to place the Energy City of Highlands Ranch incorporation issue on the November ballot by the year 2010.

Governor Ritter attended the press conference event and remarked to the crowd and media that the seniors are tackling the tough energy problems that we all face today and what they are doing is showing leadership and heading in the right direction.

Clean Tech Energy Day was hosted by the 16 TRHS seniors who teamed together last October to develop and refine the Energy City of Highlands Ranch business plan. The seniors worked with local LEEDS building architects, wind and solar experts and a national investment bank company.

The seniors have honed their energy city business plan to get the city of Highlands Ranch off the grid by the year 2020. This would require an energy incubator, which would be a city-owned clean-tech laboratory and the incubator will offer clean-tech/wet lab research and development facilities and mentoring services to energy-related startup companies.

Next years senior project researchers will be aligning with local and state government leaders to get the energy city incorporation issue on the November ballot. In addition, they will be launching Colorado's first-evercompressed natural gas automobile home fueling garage pilot program.

For more information:

Highlands Ranch Clean Technology Website

Energy City of Highlands Ranch Incubator Blog

[Report this as objectionable content.]

SUBMIT COMMENT

Rate the above story

Current Rating

Based on 1 user ratings.

Talk Back : submit comments to the story

*Note: you need to log-in to add a comment or rating.

Thank you! Your comment has been updated.

CONTRIBUTOR INFORMATION

steve taraborelli

highlands ranch , CO

steve taraborelli has posted 20 stories and 1 comment since joining on 2/2/2006. steve taraborelli 's average story rating is 3.68.

view profile » view other postings from steve taraborelli »

SAVE AND SHARE THIS STORY

digg	Google
del.icio.us	Yahoo!
reddit	Newsvine

What is this?

STORY RSS FEEDS

All stories

All stories in Highlands Ranch

All stories by steve taraborelli

WANT TO WRITE FOR YOURHUB.COM?

Want to see the stories you write and the photos you shoot featured in the YourHub.com Thursday print section available all over the Front Range and with home subscriptions of the Rocky Mountain News and The Denver Post? All you have to do is register, then post a story or column, start a blog or tell everyone what events are happening in town. We will print the best stories, columns, event listings, photos and blog entries in our print sections.

Loading Ad