Monday March 22, Governor Ritter signed into law a bill that requires investor owned Colorado electrical utilities to provide 30% of electricity to be generated by renewable energy by 2020.
This will give Colorado the second highest Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), second only to California's RPS goal of 33%.
For more information, see the link in the side bar to the full article in the Denver Post article.
Note that RPS is a goal - Feed-in Tariff if the best tool to meet that goal!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Colorado 30% RPS by 2010
The original Colorado Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) of 10% RPS was passed by citizen referendum in 2004. In 2007 the Colorado Legislature increased that percentage to 20% by 2020. This year, 2010, the Colorado Legislature increased the RPS percentages to achieve 30% renewable generation by 2020 and requires a portion of the RPS to be met by "distributed generation" (DG) which does not require additional transmission facilities to connect to the grid. Other requirements of the bill requires consideration of employment and economic factors, a larger carve-out for DG, encourages in-state utility scale generation, installation of large systems by licensed electricians, and other requirements. See the link in the right panel for a detailed description courtesy of Colorado Capital Watch.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Colorado DORA PUC Report on FITs
During the spring and summer of 2009 the State of Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies - Public Utilities Commission performed a study of Feed-in Tariffs that was favorable and concluded that FITs are complimentary to the Colorado Portfolio Standards (RPS) and do not pose inherent issues with electrical power generation and delivery in Colorado.
The full text of the CO DORA PUC report "The Use of Feed-in Tariffs for the promotion of Renewable Energy: Applications in Colorado" is available at:
www.dora.state.co.us/puc/presentations/InformationMeetings/Renewables/08-20-09CIM_StaffFinal09-29-09_FIT-OtherIncentivesPromoteRenewableEnergy.pdf
This report was presented at the August 20, 2009 Commissioners Information Meeting. Data spreadsheets and staff presentations are available at:
www.dora.state.co.us/puc/presentations/InformationMeetings/09M-247ALL-CIMs.htm
The full text of the CO DORA PUC report "The Use of Feed-in Tariffs for the promotion of Renewable Energy: Applications in Colorado" is available at:
www.dora.state.co.us/puc/presentations/InformationMeetings/Renewables/08-20-09CIM_StaffFinal09-29-09_FIT-OtherIncentivesPromoteRenewableEnergy.pdf
This report was presented at the August 20, 2009 Commissioners Information Meeting. Data spreadsheets and staff presentations are available at:
www.dora.state.co.us/puc/presentations/InformationMeetings/09M-247ALL-CIMs.htm
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