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BILL SUMMARY For COLORADO ENERGY OFFICE SMART ACT PRESENTATION

JOINT COMMITTEE COMMITTEE ON JOINT SENATE TRANSPORTATION & ENERGY AND HOUSE ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Date Jan 17, 2024       Location Old Supreme Court

Colorado Energy Office SMART Act Presentation - Committee Discussion Only


12:29:10 PM  
Will Toor, Executive Director, and Dominique Gomez, Deputy Director, with the CEO gave the following SMART Act presentation: https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/images/ceo_smart_act_presentation_2024.pdf.

Director Toor started the presentation with an overview of the department's organizational structure, wildly important goals, and operations and finance. The presentation continued with information on CEO's budget requests, legislative agenda, stimulus funding implementation, federal funding through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act, long-term funding, and their regulatory agenda.
12:41:59 PM  
The presentation continued with program updates regarding transportation, building efficiency and electrification, Greenhouse Gas Roadmap, and regulatory work.

The committee asked questions regarding green energy citing decisions and issues with the system, modernization of counties, replacing carbon through electrification, target dates related to gas production, employee statistics, regulatory authority, energy storage, Colorado climate goals and decarbonization, climate science, and electric vehicles.