Democrats Kill GOP Effort to Repeal Rural Renewable Energy Standard

Senate Democrats quickly killed a Republican bill that aimed to overturn legislation, approved by Democrats last year, that increased the renewable energy standard for rural electricity providers.

The Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, known around the Capitol as the “kill committee” — where Democrats send Republican bills to die, voted down Senate Bill 35 on a 3-2 party-line vote Wednesday afternoon.

Committee Named to Review Colorado's Latest Renewable Energy Law

An advisory committee convened to suggest changes to the newly signed law doubling the amount of renewable energy that Colorado’s rural electric cooperatives must have by 2020 will start work on July 10.

That’s according to an announcement Tuesday from the Colorado Energy Office, which also announced the members of the committee.

New CO Law Mandates Green Energy Increase Not Be at Customer Expense

A bill requiring Colorado’s rural energy cooperatives to double their green energy output went into effect Monday.

Senate Bill 252, signed by Gov. John Hickenlooper in June, requires rural energy companies to provide 20 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020. The previous model only demanded 10 percent through renewable means.