HB 26-1129

House Bill 26-1129, also known as the Gas Utility Service bill, requires gas companies in Colorado to exclude carbon dioxide emissions from residential customers when creating their clean heat plans. This means that these utilities won't have to account for the CO₂ produced by homes using natural gas for heating and other purposes in their emission reduction goals. The bill also allows gas companies to recover costs for safety improvements to their distribution systems and removes a previous restriction on offering incentives to new customers who set up gas service. Since it has been signed, this bill is now law and its provisions are enforceable.

Official Summary

The bill requires a gas distribution utility (utility) to exempt carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the combustion of gas by residential customers from the utility's clean heat plan filed with the public utilities commission (commission). A utility must exclude residential carbon dioxide emissions from the baseline and projected emissions calculations used in the utility's clean heat plan.     If a utility has already submitted a clean heat plan to the commission prior to the effective date of the bill, the utility may submit a revised clean heat plan to the commission that excludes residential carbon dioxide emissions from the utility's baseline and projected emissions calculations. The bill requires the commission to adopt rules that allow a utility to submit a revised clean heat plan.     The bill permits a utility to recover costs related to a system safety and integrity project, which is defined as a certain type of project that improves the safety or integrity of the gas distribution system.     The bill repeals a prohibition on a gas utility providing incentives to customers for establishing gas service to a property.(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)

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