# Clean Heat Resources

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- **citation:** 4 CCR 723-4 Rule 4730
- **title:** Clean Heat Resources
- **source type:** regulation
- **agency:** Colorado Public Utilities Commission
- **status:** current
- **official:** true
- **published on:** Not available
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** (a) Clean heat resources include any one or a combination of the following resources: (I) demand side management programs in accordance with the demand side management provisions in these rules and as defined in § 40-1-102(6), C.R.S.; (A) the Commission shall collaborate with the Air Pollution Contr
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(a) Clean heat resources include any one or a combination of the following
resources:
(I) demand side management programs in accordance with the demand side
management provisions in these rules and as defined in § 40-1-102(6),
C.R.S.;
(A) the Commission shall collaborate with the Air Pollution Control
Division to ensure that any emissions reductions achieved through
gas demand side management programs are appropriately
accounted for in accordance with § 25-7-102(2)(g), C.R.S.
(II) recovered methane;
(A) All recovered methane shall be represented by a recovered
methane credit, issued subject to a recovered methane protocol
approved by the Air Quality Control Commission.
(B) All recovered methane projects shall be located in Colorado and
shall be delivered within Colorado through a dedicated recovered
methane pipeline or through a common carrier pipeline.

(C) Any recovered methane credit or other tradable and severable
mechanism representing the emission reduction attributes of a
clean heat resource shall be retired in the year generated and may
not be sold by the utility or the utility’s customer.
(D) A utility may count emissions reductions represented by the
retirement of a recovered methane credit only if the credit was
retired in its clean heat target year. A utility may only count
emissions reductions represented by a methane credit one time
toward achieving any clean heat target.
(E) Repairs to the utility’s distribution system shall be reviewed in
accordance with the gas infrastructure planning rules 4550 through
4555. In order to qualify as a clean heat resource, recovered
methane from such repairs must meet a recovered methane
protocol approved by the Air Quality Control Commission and be
determined cost-effective by the Commission based on actual
reductions in methane achieved.
(III) green hydrogen;
(IV) beneficial electrification programs, as defined in § 40-1-102(1.2), C.R.S.;
(V) pyrolysis of tires that meets a recovered methane protocol approved by Air
Quality Control Commission; and
(VI) any other technology approved by the Commission that the Commission
finds is cost-effective and that the Air Pollution Control Division finds
results in a reduction in carbon emissions from the combustion of gas in
customer end uses or meets a recovered methane protocol approved by
the Air Quality Control Commission.
(b) A clean heat resource shall not include a change in service by a customer from
sales service to transportation service. The Commission shall address changes
from sales service to transportation service by the utility's customers as such
changes relate to baseline emissions, projected emissions, and clean heat
targets in evaluating whether a clean heat plan is in the public interest.
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