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Our Mission
Our Mission
To encourage and support Grand County residents, property owners & visitors to take action to protect the environment for future generations.
What and Why?
What and Why?
Sustainable Grand is a Grand County non-profit focused on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and supporting a more energy-efficient, resilient community.
Our current focus is on reducing GHG emissions by improving energy efficiency in buildings and promoting renewable energy. Homes and small businesses account for approximately 31% of national greenhouse gas emissions, and local data shows this percentage is even higher in our region, according to the 2025 Town of Winter Park GHG Inventory. This makes building efficiency one of the most impactful places to take action locally.
By helping residents and businesses use less energy — and use it more efficiently — we can lower costs, improve comfort, and reduce environmental impact across Grand County.
Our Energy Vision
Our Energy Vision
We envision a future where all residents, businesses, and visitors have access to energy that is affordable, dependable, and clean.
Through education, programs, partnerships, and local action, Sustainable Grand works to make this vision a reality for our community — today and for generations to come.
Energy Action Plan
Energy Action Plan
The Grand County Community Energy Action Plan was developed in 2024, through nine-months of countywide collaboration with community leaders, Sustainable Grand, Xcel Partners in Energy & Mountain Parks Electric, to identify a shared vision for Grand County’s energy future along with specific goals and strategies to move toward that vision.
The plan establishes a countywide goal to double annual participation in residential and business energy efficiency programs by 2026.
Why?
Why?
Below are some of the reasons sustainability is particularly important in our county:
Our Fair Share of the Money
Our Fair Share of the Money
Federal and state programs are providing millions of dollars to Colorado communities for energy efficiency, resiliency, renewable energy, EV infrastructure, waste management and more. Historically, Grand County gets very little of this money, because we're not well organized. Our goal is to significantly increase this share of funds coming to our community.
Economy and Lifestyle
Economy and Lifestyle
If you consider that our region's temperature has increased over the past 100 years, there's a future where our main economic driver [winter tourism] starts to shrink and the supporting industries [restaurants, hotels, retail] struggle to survive. This puts everything at risk; our amenities, the economy, tax base, home values and more.
Climate change, bio-diversity, water, air quality
Climate change, bio-diversity, water, air quality
A warming region will have so many negative affects on the environment that they're too numerous to list. The mountain pine beetle outbreak, caused by warmer temperatures and lower precipitation, was just one example.
Resiliency
Resiliency
We need to build a community which is more resilient to climate change and natural disasters. This is possible with better building codes, Firewise planning, redundancy in our electrical grid, micro-grids that can power critical infrastructure and more.
For example, we need places that can act as shelters in a widespread disaster and these places should function if the electric grid has gone down.
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