On Tuesday morning, former Boulder mayor Susan Osborne shared the story of her city’s pursuit of clean, local, affordable energy.  It starts years ago with consideration of forming a municipal utility, but it wasn’t brought to a head until Xcel Energy built a failed smart grid “beta” and reneged on an offer to build a nearby wind farm for Boulder’s use.  In 2011, the voters of Boulder gave the city approval to pursue municipalization, a multi-year process.

Click to listen to Susan’s presentation.  Watch the video, too!