Clean-energy industry leader: Colorado’s renewables sector to double by 2030

BRIGHTON — Colorado’s already significant renewable-energy sector is expected to undergo a major growth spurt over the next few years, an industry leader is predicting. 

“This entire sector is going to double,” Jason Grumet, CEO of the Washington, D.C.-based trade group American Clean Power Association, said Tuesday in Brighton. “It’s expected that Colorado’s clean-energy presence by 2030 will be twice as big as it is today.”

Grumets’ remarks came during a celebration of the start of a $40 million expansion and upgrade project by Danish wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems at its manufacturing facilities in Windsor and Brighton.

“I don’t think people…