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- Colorado's vast fossil fuel resources include the Niobrara Shale, with resource estimates running as high as 2 billion barrels of oil.
- From 2005 to 2015, crude oil production in Colorado more than quadrupled; in the same period, marketed natural gas production rose 51%.
- In 2015, 60% of the electricity generated in Colorado came from coal, 22% from natural gas, and 18% from renewable energy resources.
- Colorado's Renewable Energy Standard requires investor-owned electric utilities to provide 30% of electricity sold from renewable energy sources by 2020, with 3% coming from distributed generation.
- In 2015, Colorado’s grid-connected solar photovoltaic capacity of 599 megawatts was the ninth largest in the United States, and the state obtained more than 6 times as much net generation from utility-scale solar facilities as it did just 5 years earlier in 2010.
Last Updated: December 15, 2016
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Colorado, U.S. Rankings
| Consumption | |
| Total Energy per Capita | 34 |
| Expenditures | |
| Total Energy per Capita | 48 |
| Production | |
| Total Energy | 7 |
| Crude Oil | 7 |
| Natural Gas | 6 |
| Coal | 11 |
| Electricity | 30 |
| Prices | |
| Natural Gas | 41 |
| Electricity | 25 |
| Environment | |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions | 24 |
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Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies, Public Utilities Commission
Colorado Department of Human Services, Office of Economic Security, LEAP
Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
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