Kirkwood eager to reduce energy consumption
By Jim Sloan, Sacramento Bee
Few businesses feel as threatened by global warming as the ski industry.
And few resorts are poised to go to the same lengths — and expense — to combat it as Kirkwood and the hardy folks who make their homes in the snowy, windswept Kirkwood Meadows.
Although only a few hundred people live year-round in Kirkwood, the community is ready to spend up to $30 million to overhaul its aging, dirty and expensive power system and reduce its contributions to global warming.
