Denver Post Editorial Questions Latest Renewable Energy Push From today's Denver Post editorial: A Democrat ic bill to boost the renewable energy standard in rural Colorado is being rushed through the legislature. It s sponsors should slow down and consider making it less onerous. ... The bill was crafted by Democrats and environmentalists without input those whom it impacts: the state's second-largest utility and rural electric co-ops with more than 100,000 customers. That should be addressed. Coloradans in 2004 voted to require inv estor-owned utilities to obtain 10 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2015. The current standar d — 30 percent by 2020 — was agreed to in 2010. A 2007 law requires the co-ops and their uti lity supplier, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, to meet a 10 percent renewable standard by 2020. SB 252, which was approved on a party-line vote in a Senate committee Monday, would increase the sta ndard to 25 percent by 2020. The six-year timeline is one issue that gives us pause. Another is cost. Read more: Moving too fast on Colorado's renewable energy standard

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