HB-1160 Home Grown Energy Act (Solano/Shaffer-Isgar)

Posted on January 28, 2008 in Colorado Legislation

Background: Repeals the existing law that requires a cooperative electric association (CEA) to provide its customers who generate electricity with a net metering program. Requires municipally owned utilities that serve at least 5,000 customers (MOUs) and CEAs to provide residential customers who generate up to 10 kilowatts from eligible energy resources with a net meter and to provide commercial or industrial customers who generate up to 25 kilowatts from eligible energy resources with a net meter. Requires CEAs and MOUs to credit a customer-generator's excess generation one-to-one against the customer's monthly energy consumption and to account for such excess generation annually or when the customer terminates electrical service. Requires CEAs, MOUs, and qualifying retail utilities subject to the renewable energy standard to provide net metering at nondiscriminatory rates. Specifies interconnection standards.
Most Recent Action: 3/26 Signed by Governor
Position: Active Support