Summer at The Powerhouse Tours Jack’s Solar Farm August 2026 | Back to Powerhouse Post Early August, our team of students and researchers spent a morning at Jack’s Solar Garden in Longmont, on a guided tour with the Colorado Agrivoltaic Learning Center (CALC). Agrivoltaics is the practice of growing crops or grazing animals underneath and […]
Summer at The Powerhouse Tours Broadcom
Summer at The Powerhouse Tours Broadcom July 2026 | Back to Powerhouse Post This July, our students, faculty and researchers had the opportunity to tour Broadcom’s semiconductor manufacturing campus here in Fort Collins. Broadcom has deep roots in the city, tracing back to Hewlett-Packard’s original decision to land in Fort Collins in 1978. Today, Broadcom […]
Summer at The Powerhouse Tours Rawhide Energy Station
Summer at the Powerhouse Tours Rawhide Energy Station Lucy Estergard | July 31, 2026 | Back to Powerhouse Post Summer at the Powerhouse is designed to connect students with industry professionals through hands-on experiences that showcase different career paths and real-world operations. The Summer at the Powerhouse series continued with a tour of Rawhide Energy […]
Summer at the Powerhouse: Tour of New Belgium Brewery
Summer at the Powerhouse Tours New Belgium Brewing Lucy Estergard | July 15, 2026 | Back to Powerhouse Post This year, the annual Summer at the Powerhouse program kicked off with a behind-the-scenes tour of New Belgium Brewery. This gives students and staff an inside look at one of Colorado’s most recognized companies. Designed to […]
Two Years of Energy Education on the Move
Two Years of Energy Education on the Move Lucy Estergard | May 13, 2026 | Back to Powerhouse Post On May 14th, 2024, the Powerhouse celebrated the soft launch of the Mobile Classroom! Over the last two years, the Mobile Classroom has visited: 280+ events 138 schools And engaged with: 18,792 K-12 students 22,740 total […]
Introducing the Energy Club
Introducing the Energy Club March 2026 | Back to Powerhouse Post Sponsored by the Energy Institute, the Energy Club will be run by students and advised by Lynsey Bosch, Associate Director of Operations and Hilary Klein, Associate Director of Engagement. The Colorado State University Energy Institute is starting a new club! The Energy Club will […]
Supporting Student Success with the RPL Lab
Supporting Student Success with the RPL Lab Alex Willman | February 4, 2026 | Back to Powerhouse Post On December 12, 2025, a group of mechanical engineering students gathered at the Powerhouse Energy Campus for their MECH-517 final, eagerly waiting to test fire rockets they had spent time building. Mech 517- Chemical Rocket Propulsion is […]
Entrepreneurship Panel and Cleantech Networking at the Powerhouse
Entrepreneurship Panel and Cleantech Networking at the Powerhouse January 2026 | Back to Powerhouse Post In late January, the Energy Institute, Lab to Life Venture Studio, STRATA, and the Institute for Entrepreneurship hosted an Entrepreneurship Panel and Cleantech Networking event at the Powerhouse Energy Campus – bringing founders, innovators, and students together. The evening kicked […]
Hydropower at the National Western Stock Show
Student Ambassadors from left to right: Amelia Anderson, Quin Noel, Maddie Thomas, and Jay Putt. Hydropower at the National Western Stock Show January 2026 | Back to Powerhouse Post From January 13 – 17, our Education and Outreach team brought our hydroflume to the 2026 National Western Stock Show, allowing participants to see hydroelectric power […]
Science to solutions: partnership to electrify motorcycles in Kenya
Science to solutions: partnership to electrify motorcycles in Kenya December 2025 | Back to Powerhouse Post This post is part of a mini-blog series highlighting how the CSU Powerhouse Energy Campus and Energy Institute bring science to solutions to scale, a motto that defines our global impact. Our previous blog in this series. In […]