Colorado Portfolio Standard Doesn't Harm Out-of-State Businesses, Tenth Circuit Rules

摘要

A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to Colorado's renewable portfolio standard, finding that the standard does not disproportionately harm out-of-state businesses (Energy & Env't Legal Inst. v. Epel, 10th Cir., No. 14-1216, 7/13/15). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit upheld a lower court ruling against the Energy and Environment Legal Institute (EELI), which argued that Colorado's renewable portfolio standard means that some out-of-state coal producers will lose business with out-of-state utilities who feed power onto an interconnected grid serving. 11 Western states, Canada and Mexico.