Forced electrification is not free. Colorado families get the bill.
The debate is often framed as an industry fight. It is bigger than that. Natural gas sits beneath Colorado's household budgets, housing stock, manufacturing base, business costs, and grid reliability.
The state is moving to eliminate natural gas — and pass you the cost.
Colorado policy is moving toward the elimination of natural gas for heating, cooking, buildings, and eventually baseload electricity, even as costs rise and reliability questions grow.
The Clean Heat Plan, building performance standards, local gas-ban policies, and proposed accelerated renewable mandates all point in one direction: fewer choices, higher conversion costs, and less room for families and businesses to decide what works.
- Homeowners face major appliance and heating-system replacement costs, as high as $15,000 to $30,000.
- Renters absorb compliance costs through rent and association fees.
- Manufacturers lose access to process heat that cannot be easily electrified.
- Utilities and ratepayers shoulder the cost of an accelerated transition.
The consequences are practical, not theoretical.
Your home
Over 70% of Colorado households heat with natural gas. A forced shift away from gas changes heating, cooking, water heaters, electrical panels, and household budgets all at once.
Your rent
Building mandates do not stop at the property line. Apartment owners, condo associations, and commercial building owners pass compliance costs to the people who live and work there.
Your business
Restaurants, manufacturers, offices, arenas, and industrial sites depend on natural gas for affordable operations and, in many cases, technical processes electricity cannot economically replace.
Your grid
Natural gas provides dispatchable power when demand spikes. During severe winter weather, reliability depends on energy sources that can perform when the wind is low, skies are dark, and demand is high.
Your vote
The central question is whether Colorado voters get to decide before natural gas is regulated out of ordinary life. EFAR believes the choice belongs to the people.
This is not natural gas versus clean energy.
The honest question is whether Colorado can pursue cleaner energy while preserving affordability, reliability, and the right of families and businesses to choose the energy that works for them.
Warmth. Choice. Affordability. Reliable heat.
Initiative 177 is the direct answer.
This is the fight EFAR is organizing around in 2026 — putting the choice back in the hands of Colorado voters.
Read the ballot fight
See what Initiative 177 does, what it does not do, and why EFAR is organizing around it.
Go to Initiative 177