House Republicans Deliver Letter Opposing Costly PUC Heating Mandate

(Denver, CO December 4, 2025) House Representative Dan Woog, Ranking Member of the Energy and Environment Committee, delivered a letter to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission urging the commissioners to reverse their new electrification mandate.

Read the full letter below:

Director Rebecca White

Colorado Public Utilities Commission

1560 Broadway, Suite 250,

Denver, CO 80202

December 3, 2025

To the Public Utility Commissioners,

Colorado families are hanging on by a thread. The holidays are approaching, and families are choosing between meat on the table and heat in the home. Today is a snow day for many communities, and people are worried about staying safe and warm. In the middle of all this, the Commission has chosen to pile on with a mandate that will make home heating even more expensive.

Your decision to force a 41% cut to natural gas emissions is not climate policy. It is kicking people when they are already down. This mandate pushes families into costly heat pumps, retrofits, and electric appliances they simply cannot afford. It ignores that natural gas is one of the only reliable and affordable ways thousands of Coloradans stay warm during dangerous winter weather. Nearly one quarter of Colorado ratepayers already qualify for energy assistance. This mandate will grow that number and push even more families into crisis.

This mandate will also hit rural Colorado the hardest. Rural families deal with challenges urban areas never face, including power outages that can last three to four days. When that happens, natural gas is what keeps people safe and warm. The rural grid cannot support mass electrification, and forcing these communities to give up natural gas before that capacity exists is dangerous.

This decision is also another blow to blue-collar workers. Colorado has already lost too many good-paying energy and utility jobs. This mandate will cut even more. And requiring homeowners to replace working systems, upgrade wiring, and redo parts of their homes is not realistic. It is another burden placed on families who can least afford it.

Colorado families deserve better than a policy that ignores the realities of where we live and what we can safely support.

We urge you to reverse course immediately and stop forcing Colorado families to pay the price for decisions made without regard for their daily reality.

Respectfully,

Dan Woog, House Representative HD-19

Ranking Member of the Energy and Environment Committee