A bill that would have required power providers across Colorado to invest in energy-efficiency measures was weakened Wednesday, then thrown into legislative limbo by a Senate committee.
House Bill 1107 would have required municipal utilities and most rural electric associations to invest 2 percent of their annual revenues in energy-efficiency programs. Such a requirement for energy-efficiency investment already exists for Xcel Energy and Pueblo-based Aquila, the state’s large investor-owned utilities.
Sen. Chris Romer, D-Denver, amended the bill so it applied only to the Intermountain Rural Electric Association.
But the committee then deadlocked 2-2 over the bill, meaning it could neither be passed nor killed. John Ingold, The Denver Post
