The New Energy Economy

The walls are blank inside Bill Ritter’s new office at Colorado State University’s Center for the New Energy Economy within the School of Global Environmental Sustainability. The policy center and Ritter’s post as its director and Senior Scholar were created in 2011, to enable the former governor to build on the state’s – and his own – legacy as a leader for clean-energy business and jobs. The bare office suggests that Ritter hasn’t been resting on his accomplishments.

“One of the things that I experienced as governor was the powerful impact of having clean-energy policy at the state level, even as…