Don’t be like California
Don’t be like California! It’s time to rethink our century old centralized grid where government and monopoly utilities collude to politicize our power. As widespread wildfires and serious winds loom in the forecast over the next week, utility company PG&E was warned that they could face an enormous liability if they continue to keep peoples’ […]
HB 1113 Testimony, Bill Voted Down 8-5
Valerie Richardson of The Colorado Observer provides background on HB 1113’s 8-5 defeat in committee, as well as other efforts to deal with last year’s SB 252 impact on rural Colorado. Full text of testimony presented by the Independence Institute: Testimony on behalf of HB 1113 Electric Renewable Energy Standard Reduction, Room 0112 January 30, […]
Legislative Preview: 2014 Energy Bills
Current through January 24, 2014 Reform defeated: SB14-035 Renewable Energy Standard Repeal *postponed indefinitely* Senate Bill 35, introduced by State Sen. Ted Harvey, would have repealed “substantially all of the provision enacted by Senate Bill 13-252” by returning the renewable portfolio standard to 10 percent from 20 percent for rural cooperative electric associations, among other […]
