Clean-energy bill gets House approval (Denver)
Xcel Energy and other investor-owned power utilities operating in Colorado would have to generate at least 30 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2020 under a bill that received final approval from the state House of Representatives Friday.
HB 1001 (full text), sponsored by Rep. Max Tyler, D-Golden, would increase by 50 percent the amount of renewable energy that Xcel and other commercial utility companies must generate in the next decade — and represents a tripling of the percentage required in 2007.
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