House Energy & Environment

Thursday, February 5, 2026·53m·▶ Watch / Listen

The House Energy & Environment Committee opened its year by unanimously advancing HB26-1051 to extend the Microgrid Community Resilience Grant Program, pointing a rural town's chronic blackouts as Exhibit A, and voted to introduce a sunset bill continuing a dormant air-quality advisory panel that federal law still requires.

Key Actions

·Continue Microgrid Community Resilience Grant ProgramPassed

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Notable Quotes

“Between 2019 and 2020 23, there were 23 outages, the longest of which lasted 20 hours. The town has experienced almost 100 total hours of blackouts over recent years.”
Representative Stewart — The sponsor's core justification: Rico's reliability record as the reason to keep the microgrid grant alive.

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Votes

Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction

Yes (12)Carlos Barron, Lori Goldstein, Jamie Jackson, Junie Joseph, Amy Paschal, Manny Rutinel, Scott Slaugh, Lesley Smith, Larry Don Suckla, Jenny Willford, Dan Woog, Alex Valdez

Excused (1)Elizabeth Velasco

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TranscriptPreview

Come to order. Ms. Falco, please call the roll. Representatives Barone. Re. Goldstein. Here. Jackson. Excused. Joseph. Right here. Pascal. Presente. Routinel. Presente. S.L. excused. Rep. Jackson. Excuse me. Smith. Presente. Tambien. Sukla. Here. Wilford. Here. Woog. A key. Velasco. Excused. Mr. Chair. I'm here. We're a little rusty folks. First first episode of the final season of Alex Valdez chairing the committee. We are going to delay our hearing on our paperless committee. Those of you who are new to the committee, we're going to have some folks here to help us all get set up with our technology. This is a paperless committee. Those of you who are just subbing, don't worry about it. But we are a paperless committee so we'll have some folks from IT up here to talk to us about it. But we're going to get started with 1051 so we'll invite our sponsor to the dais. Representative Stewart. Please feel free at your leisure to tell us a little. Oh and Representative Sucla, welcome to the Energy and Environment Committee. Our first bill of the year, we're going to be very hard on you and so good luck, luck and take it away…

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