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The Colorado state Senate late Monday approved a bill that would raise the state's renewable energy requirement to 25 percent for rural electric cooperatives across the state.
The bill now goes to the House for consideration.
SB 252 — sponsored by state Senate President John Morse, D-Colorado Springs, and House Speaker Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver — would require rural cooperatives with more than 100,000 meters, and utilities that generate and supply electricity on behalf of member cooperatives,…