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Read. Follow. Verify.Colorado creates electric grid resiliency task force and mandates transformer assessments
Last action · March 5, 2026: House Committee on Energy & Environment Postpone IndefinitelySponsor: Ken DeGraaf
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What This Bill Would Do
The bill creates an 18-member Colorado electric grid resiliency task force to study grid resilience and requires transmission-owning entities to participate in assessments and share data. The task force must organize its first meeting by November 28, 2026, and is scheduled to repeal on September 1, 2031.
Transmission-owning entities and transformer operators face new compliance mandates, reporting requirements under federal guidelines, and cost-recovery mechanisms through utility rates or member assessments.
Who It Would Affect
Groups the bill's text would affect if enacted, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Transmission-owning entities
Must participate in task force assessments, provide requested data, and are permitted to recover compliance costs through rates, member assessments, or ordinary budgeting.
Owners or operators of covered transformers
Required to file specific infrastructure reports with the federal energy regulatory commission.
public utilities commission
Must prepare biennial report summaries for legislative committees and adopt rules requiring the implementation of high-priority hardware-based mitigation measures.
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Currently in committee. The next step in the legislative lifecycle is Floor Vote.
Procedural history
2 actions- Mar 5, 2026HouseHouse Committee on Energy & Environment Postpone Indefinitely
- Feb 4, 2026HouseIntroducedIntroduced In House - Assigned to Energy & Environment
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Postpone House Bill 26-1124 indefinitely.
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Refer House Bill 26-1124, as amended, to the Committee on Finance.
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- Controversy40Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment10Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
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