CO SB113

Prohibits the Public Utilities Commission from considering speculative costs or risks from potential future environmental laws and greenhouse gas regulations when evaluating utility resource proposals.

Allows the commission to consider only actual costs that utilities have incurred and paid for compliance with existing federal or state environmental regulations.

Permits the commission to evaluate whether carbon-free generation reduces costs actually incurred by utilities due to federal or state carbon emissions regulations.

Caps cost recovery from the "Clean Air - Clean Jobs Act" emission reduction plans at 2% of a customer's annual total electric bill, preventing utilities from recovering costs exceeding this threshold from retail customers.

Applies cost limitations to renewable energy standard compliance determinations, preventing consideration of speculative future environmental regulation risks in rate impact calculations.