House Energy & Environment

All right. The House Energy and Environment Committee will come to order. Ms. Falco, please take the roll. Representatives Goldstein. Here. Gonzalez. Here. Jackson. Joseph. Excused. Pascal. Here. Groot. No. Excused. Saw. Excused. Smith. Here. Soper. Soping. Today. Excused. Wilford. Also. Excused. Woog. Here. Glasgow. Excused. Mr. Chair. I'm here. Someone's here. Good evening, everybody. We have a long docket of bills for you this evening, and we'll just get right into it with House Bill 1081. We have wonderful Majority leader Representative Camacho, who would like to. Madam Majority Leader, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. And thank you, committee members. For many Colorado families, electricity bills are now true kitchen table issues. When rates go up, it's not abstract. It affects groceries, childcare, and household budgets. This bill is about speed to power and saving money. Advanced transmission technologies, including grid enhancing technologies like dynamic line ratings and advanced conductors, can be deployed on existing transmission lines quickly and at a fraction of the cost of building entirely new infrastructures. In many cases, they can significantly increase the amount of electricity those lines can carry without putting up new towers or going through years of permitting. That means…