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Contributed by: David Cottrell on 3/8/2007

As an FYI to our members, House Bill 1169 (Net Metering)was discussed
in committee March 8 at 1:00pm at the State Capitol in Denver.

25 Rural Electric Associations - coops - serve 601,000 meters in Colorado.
To put this into perspective, Xcel Energy serves about twice that number of
Colorado customers.

Although there are notable exceptions, most of the coops talk a good line
about renewable energy, but until recently have vigorously opposed any laws
that would require them to adopt policies that are friendly to renewables.
Their arguments have consistently wildly overstated the costs, and
understated the benefits of good renewable energy laws.

House Bill 1169 would standardize net metering and interconnection policies
for the coops. 1169 is friendly to homeowners and businesses, while
protecting the integrity of a coops grid. A coop's own rate policies will
serve to protect all coop members from unreasonable rate increases.

Many of the coops have mounted an aggressive campaign to kill 1169.
Interestingly, at the same time they are waging war on 1169, most of the
coops are supporting, or at least not opposing, coop inclusion into the
renewable energy standard under HB 1281. HB 1281 expands upon Amendment 37
and requires Xcel and Aquila to provide 20% renewable electricity by 2020,
and includes the coops at 10% renewables by 2020.

One coop remains steadfastly opposed to renewables - Intermountain Rural
Electric Association (IREA). They are attempting to opt-out of HB 1281 and
are certainly campaigning to kill HB 1169.

If you are interested in participating in supporting HB 1169, contact (and by default
HB 1281), Call or email your State House Representative. your State Senator,
and Governor Ritter

David Cottrell
Littleton

David Cottrell administers the IREAVoices.org Web site.

IREA Voices is an independent group of member-owners of IREA who envision more open transparent diversified IREA that supports energy conservation and clean energy in order to reduce dangerous dependence on coal-fired electricity.
More information is available at www.IREAVoices.org
To see a list of IREA Districts, go to here

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