Implementing the Renewable Energy Standard
The Renewable Energy Standard initiated in 2004 by Amendment 37, was codified in Section 40-2-124, Colorado Revised Statutes, and revised by House Bill 07-1281
Excerpts from current section 40-2-124, C. R.S.
(1) Each provider of retail electric service in the state of Colorado, other than municipally owned utilities that serve forty thousand customers or less, shall be considered a qualifying retail utility. Each qualifying retail utility, with the exception of cooperative electric associations that have voted to exempt themselves from commission jurisdiction pursuant to section 40-9.5-104 and municipally owned utilities, shall be subject to the rules established under this article by the commission.
(1)(c)(I) . . . the electric resource standards shall require each qualifying retail utility to generate, or cause to be generated, electricity from eligible energy resources in . . . minimum amounts . . . .
(1)(c)(V) . . . the electric resource standards shall require each cooperative electric association and municipally owned utility that is a qualifying retail utility to generate, or cause to be generated, electricity from eligible energy resources in . . . minimum amounts . . . .
(1)(a) Definitions of eligible energy resources that can be used to meet the standards. "Eligible energy resources" means recycled energy and renewable energy resources. "Renewable energy resources" means solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, new hydroelectricity with a nameplate rating of ten megawatts or less, and hydroelectricity in existence on January 1, 2005, with a nameplate rating of thirty megawatts or less. The commission shall determine, following an evidentiary hearing, the extent to which such electric generation technologies utilized in an optional pricing program may be used to comply with this standard. A fuel cell using hydrogen derived from an eligible energy resource is also an eligible electric generation technology. Fossil and nuclear fuels and their derivatives are not eligible energy resources. . . .
see entire Section 40-2-124, C. R. S. - The Renewable Standard
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