Two house bills that promote energy efficiency and renewable energy are making their way through the Colorado House of Representatives. Keep track of HB08-1107 and HB08-1164!

House Bill 1107

- Directs cooperative electric associations and municipal utilities serving 5,000 or more customers to engage in conservation and energy efficiency programs and to devote funding equal to 1% of sales revenue in their first year, and 2% in their second and subsequent years, to such efforts.
- Exempts a utility from the spending requirement in any year in which the utility's retail electricity sales, in megawatt-hours, fall at least 3% below its sales for the immediately preceding year.
- Requires periodic reports from the utilities to the governor's energy office.
- Specifies that this act does not extend PUC authority.


House Bill 1164

- Directs the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to consider whether the acquisition of utility scale solar resources (2 MW or greater) is in the public interest
- Requires the PUC to give full consideration to impacts of future carbon regulation on electricity pricing when evaluating utility resource plans
- Defines benefits of utility scale solar resources and requires the PUC to consider these in resource planning