Second Regular Session
              Sixty-ninth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                 INTRODUCED
                                                           
                                                           
 LLS NO. 14-0374.01 Duane Gall x4335     SENATE BILL 14-082
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 Grantham,  Harvey, Hill, Rivera, Cadman, Crowder, King, Lambert, Lundberg, Roberts,
 Scheffel, Tochtrop
 
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 (None),
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Senate Committees
 House Committees
 
 
 State, Veterans, & Military Affairs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning attainment of the renewable energy standard by
            cooperative electric associations, and, in connection
            therewith, reducing the cost to the associations'
            members of achieving specified levels of distributed
            generation.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not reflect any amendments that may be subsequently adopted. If this bill
       passes third reading in the house of introduction, a bill summary that
       applies to the reengrossed version of this bill will be available at
       http://www.leg.state.co.us/billsummaries.)
       
            In the section of the renewable energy standard statute setting
       aside a specific portion of electric generating capacity that cooperative
       electric associations must meet through distributed generation, the bill:
                 Eliminates the disparity between cooperative electric
                 associations serving fewer than 10,000 meters and those
                 serving 10,000 or more meters;
                 Establishes a uniform 0.5% of total retail electricity sales
                 as the target percentage for distributed generation; and
                 Allows the 0.5% to be measured collectively among these
                 associations as a group rather than individually.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 40-2-124, amend (1)
       (c) (X) as follows:
            40-2-124.  Renewable energy standards - qualifying retail and
       wholesale utilities - definitions - net metering - legislative declaration.
       (1)  Each provider of retail electric service in the state of Colorado, other
       than municipally owned utilities that serve forty thousand customers or
       fewer, is 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, is subject to the rules established under
       this article by the commission. No additional regulatory authority is
       provided to the commission other than that specifically contained in this
       section. In accordance with article 4 of title 24, C.R.S., the commission
       shall revise or clarify existing rules to establish the following:
            (c)  Electric resource standards:
            (X)  Of the minimum amounts of electricity required to be
       generated or caused to be generated by qualifying retail utilities in
       accordance with subparagraph (V.5) and sub-subparagraph (D) of
       subparagraph (V) of this paragraph (c), one-tenth, or one-half of one
       percent of the utilities' combined total retail electricity sales must be
       from distributed generation; except that
            (A)  For a cooperative electric association that is a qualifying retail
       utility and that provides service to fewer than ten thousand meters, the
       distributed generation component may be three-quarters of one percent of
       total retail electricity sales; and
            (B)  this subparagraph (X) does not apply to a qualifying retail
       utility that is a municipal utility.
            SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
       takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
       ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
       6, 2014, if adjournment sine die is on May 7, 2014); except that, if a
       referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the
       state constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act
       within such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect
       unless approved by the people at the general election to be held in
       November 2014 and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by the governor.