Households
How Colorado stays warm
7 in 10 Colorado households rely on natural gas — the affordable default, not a fringe choice. (Consumer Energy Alliance, Powering Progress, 2025)
The Facts
The facts behind Colorado's energy choice.
Affordability, reliability, and choice are not talking points. They are measurable. Here is what natural gas means for Colorado households, businesses, and the grid, and what is at stake if it is taken away.
By the Numbers
What natural gas means for Colorado.
Household Cost
About $1,100 saved a year
Natural-gas households save about $1,100 a year compared with all-electric homes, according to Consumer Energy Alliance.
Conversion Cost
Forced switching is expensive
A Denver analysis estimated that fully electrifying an existing home can cost more than $40,000, counting the home and the utility upgrades needed to support it. (Common Sense Institute, Denver Housing Affordability Report, Feb. 2023)
Grid Reliability
Gas carries the coldest days
Colorado leans on natural gas when it's coldest.
Figures compiled from public reporting, utility filings, and industry data. Full source citations available on request.
The Policy Landscape
The rules driving forced electrification.
The push does not come from voters. It comes from a stack of rules and mandates, each moving in the same direction: fewer choices, higher costs, and less room for families and businesses to decide what works.
- State clean-heat rules require utilities to cut emissions far faster than the legislature set in law, amounting to a phase-out of natural gas over the coming decades.
- Building performance standards force apartment, condo, and commercial owners onto electrification timelines, with the costs passed to renters and tenants.
- Local restrictions block new natural gas hookups in a growing number of communities.
- Proposed accelerated renewable mandates would retire remaining natural gas baseload years faster than current law requires.
Seeing It Firsthand
Living the cost of forced electrification?
If a utility bill, a building mandate, or a project in your community shows what this really costs Coloradans, we want to hear about it.
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Your experience helps make the case that this debate is about real households and businesses, not one industry.
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