{"id":24366,"date":"2026-02-23T14:55:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T19:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=24366"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:05:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:05:52","slug":"the-colorado-public-utilities-commission-should-reconsider-its-inadequate-pipeline-leak-repair-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2026\/02\/23\/the-colorado-public-utilities-commission-should-reconsider-its-inadequate-pipeline-leak-repair-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colorado Public Utilities Commission should reconsider its inadequate pipeline leak repair standards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Colorado has 80,000 miles of natural gas pipelines that need to be monitored regularly for leaks, and last year the Colorado Public Utilities Commission was directed to set enhanced monitoring standards for the majority of the state&#8217;s pipelines.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unfortunately, the Commission missed the mark, and EDF is seeking reconsideration of the Commission&#8217;s order to make sure it includes effective technology standards and considers environmental protections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Colorado Public Utilities Commission&nbsp;(\u201cPUC\u201d)&nbsp;issued a disappointing decision&nbsp;last month,&nbsp;failing to adopt&nbsp;commonsense technology standards to find and fix dangerous leaks from pipelines and ensure&nbsp;strong requirements&nbsp;to protect our environment.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Better oversight is&nbsp;long overdue and critically needed. In the last ten years, operators in Colorado have reported 56 pipeline incidents, costing over $16 million in property damages and emergency resources.&nbsp;EDF is&nbsp;continuing to&nbsp;fight for improved rules to protect communities from the harms associated with leaking pipelines,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/library.edf.org\/AssetLink\/v0uyu1omnwd4015f721feoei2e652r0j.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seeking reconsideration<\/a>&nbsp;of the Commission\u2019s order.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Gas&nbsp;pipeline&nbsp;leaks are&nbsp;bad for&nbsp;Colorado&nbsp;communities&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colorado&nbsp;is&nbsp;home to over&nbsp;80,000 miles&nbsp;of natural gas pipelines, with neighborhoods and&nbsp;towns hosting distribution, transmission, and gathering pipelines.&nbsp;Natural gas pipeline losses are harmful to the environment and human health, pose a safety risk to the nearby public, and result in economic waste that is costly to customers. Natural gas is primarily composed of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change, which is driving&nbsp;rising temperatures, continuing reductions in snowpack, more frequent and intense droughts, and&nbsp;more and larger wildfires&nbsp;for Coloradans.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best way to prevent pipeline incidents and address the public health&nbsp;and environmental&nbsp;risks associated with natural gas&nbsp;infrastructure&nbsp;is to&nbsp;find&nbsp;and fix leaks&nbsp;quickly.&nbsp;Methane detection technologies have become more&nbsp;commercially available&nbsp;and cost-effective, with the ability to&nbsp;locate&nbsp;more&nbsp;pipeline leaks&nbsp;and&nbsp;quantify&nbsp;leak flow rates.&nbsp;Strong leak management standards can help Colorado meet its climate goals, while improving public safety.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, the Colorado Legislature directed the Public Utilities Commission&nbsp;to adopt statewide advanced leak detection technology standards&nbsp;for gas pipelines, to&nbsp;improve public safety and environmental protection.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Commission&nbsp;failed to&nbsp;uphold its legal&nbsp;mandate<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After months of stakeholder input\u2014during which EDF&nbsp;presented evidence-based recommendations to improve&nbsp;leak management&nbsp;on gas pipelines\u2014the PUC&nbsp;on January 29&nbsp;issued&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/library.edf.org\/AssetLink\/7m6r50057veh4jofjbgf5x43gc0vdo67.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a&nbsp;final&nbsp;decision<\/a>&nbsp;containing&nbsp;significant deficiencies that betray&nbsp;its&nbsp;statutory obligation to issue rules that \u201cmeet the need for pipeline safety and protection of the environment.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EDF&nbsp;is&nbsp;formally&nbsp;requesting&nbsp;that the Commission reconsider&nbsp;and&nbsp;modify&nbsp;its decision. The Commission should&nbsp;(1)\u202fstrengthen the definition of \u201cadvanced leak detection technology\u201d to ensure that qualifying equipment is capable of detecting most leaks on each pipeline type, including distribution lines, and (2) require operators to mitigate environmental harm\u2014not just safety risks\u2014when prioritizing leaks for repair, by incorporating consideration of environmental impacts into the leak grading standards.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The\u00a0final\u00a0rules\u00a0are inadequate\u00a0for the following reasons:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Ineffective technology standards:<\/strong>&nbsp;The leak detection technology standard&nbsp;determines&nbsp;the size of the smallest leak that the technology must be capable of detecting.&nbsp;The&nbsp;final standards&nbsp;include one&nbsp;technology standard&nbsp;for&nbsp;surveys conducted on&nbsp;all&nbsp;distribution, transmission, and gathering pipelines,&nbsp;which ignores their&nbsp;varied physical properties and&nbsp;operational purposes.&nbsp;For distribution pipelines, the Commission\u2019s definition of advanced leak detection technologies is&nbsp;so lax that it would miss&nbsp;the vast majority of&nbsp;leaks on the approximately&nbsp;59,000 miles&nbsp;of distribution pipelines under the Commission\u2019s&nbsp;jurisdiction, even though there is commercially available technology to detect these leaks.&nbsp;Tailoring the available technology and&nbsp;methodology&nbsp;to the&nbsp;appropriate type&nbsp;of pipeline, and&nbsp;adopting strong standards for each of those classifications,&nbsp;will ensure that more leaks are found and fixed quickly and safely.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>No consideration for environmental&nbsp;protection:&nbsp;<\/strong>Contrary to the express direction of the Legislature, the Commission\u2019s prioritization of leaks for repair considers only safety and not the need for both safety&nbsp;and&nbsp;environmental protection.&nbsp;Leak classifications (or \u201cleak grades\u201d)&nbsp;determine&nbsp;which leaks operators will prioritize for repair, and which will go unrepaired for as long as five years.&nbsp;By removing consideration of environmental&nbsp;impacts&nbsp;from leak grading standards, the Decision allows leaks that present significant risks to the environment to go unrepaired for years.&nbsp;Operators should&nbsp;be required&nbsp;to&nbsp;quickly fix pipeline leaks that pose safety&nbsp;<em>and<\/em>&nbsp;environmental&nbsp;harms&nbsp;to communities.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With strong, comprehensive advanced leak detection and repair standards for gas pipelines, the PUC can protect communities from dangerous health risks, reduce the threat of pipeline incidents, and drive climate progress by cutting methane emissions. The&nbsp;Commission&nbsp;should&nbsp;reconsider its decision and&nbsp;issue&nbsp;improved&nbsp;standards&nbsp;to ensure meaningful improvements to gas pipeline operations and oversight.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Colorado Public Utilities Commission&nbsp;(\u201cPUC\u201d)&nbsp;issued a disappointing decision&nbsp;last month,&nbsp;failing to adopt&nbsp;commonsense technology standards to find and fix dangerous leaks from pipelines and ensure&nbsp;strong requirements&nbsp;to protect our environment.&nbsp;&nbsp; Better oversight is&nbsp;long overdue and critically needed. 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