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Colorado Lawmakers Reignite the State’s ‘Oil and Gas Wars’0
- Energy, ENERGY - Governing Bodies / Agencies
- March 14, 2024
Upon signing legislation to usher in a new regulatory paradigm for the industry, Governor Jared Polis famously declared an end to Colorado’s oil and gas wars in 2019. The state’s saber-rattling legislature has other ideas in mind for 2024. Emboldened by historic majorities in the legislature, Colorado Democrats have introduced Senate Bill 159, a measure to
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Energy & Environmental Policy Center’s Testimony on Bill to Classify Nuclear as ‘Clean Energy’0
- Energy, ENERGY - Governing Bodies / Agencies
- January 25, 2024
On Wednesday, January 24, 2024, Independence Institute’s Energy and Environmental Policy Analyst Jake Fogleman testified on SB24-039 in the Colorado Senate Transportation & Energy Committee. The bill would have amended the state’s statutory definitions of “clean energy” and “clean energy resources” to include nuclear energy. The committee ultimately voted not to pass the bill at
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Colorado PUC Trims Xcel’s Unprecedented Renewables Plan 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Governing Bodies / Agencies
- December 21, 2023
Ratepayer interests received a small win from Colorado regulators overseeing Xcel Energy’s latest resource plan. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) pared back Xcel’s $15 billion request to build wind, solar, batteries, and new transmission lines by around $3 billion last week. The PUC’s trimming of Xcel’s request came as it approved an alternative resource
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Bootleggers, Baptists, and the Clean Energy Transition 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Renewable Energy
- December 8, 2023
Independence Institute has a long track record of warning against the unhealthy incentives that can arise from the relationship between monopoly electric utilities and green policymakers. Once viewed as rivals of one another, the two sides realized a few years back that coexisting as fellow travelers on the road to the so-called clean energy transition
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Colorado’s Energy Future: The High Cost of 100% Renewable Electricity by 2040 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Issue Papers, Environment
- May 15, 2023
Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D.) campaigned for his first term in office on a platform of transitioning the state to 100 percent renewable energy by 2040. In his first year in office, Polis unveiled an official government “roadmap” to do just that. Since then, he has signed into law no fewer than 55 climate bills
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Members of New Joint Committee to Investigate Utility Rates Announced 0
- Energy, ENERGY - Governing Bodies / Agencies, Issues
- February 24, 2023
The state has announced the official makeup of a new legislative committee dedicated to investigating rising utility bills. Comprised of lawmakers of both parties from each legislative chamber, the members of the six-person Joint Select Committee on Rising Utility Rates will be as follows: From the Senate- President Steve Fenberg (D.) Lisa Cutter (D.) Minority
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