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February 5, 2015 By SEO Admin

Colorado wind, solar power goals slashed under Republican proposal

Republicans control the state Senate by a one-vote margin and on Thursday used that margin to pass a bill aimed at rolling back Colorado’s renewable energy standards.

Senate Bill 44, sponsored by Sen. Ray Scott, R-Grand Junction, passed the Senate on Thursday with an 18-17 vote.

The bill would roll back Colorado’s renewable energy goals, currently set at 30 percent by 2020 for investor-owned utilities, to half of that — or 15 percent. The goal for rural cooperatives, which currently need to get…