Committee recommends six appointments to Building Decarbonization Enterprise board

The Senate Transportation and Energy Committee voted unanimously to recommend six nominees to the Building Decarbonization Enterprise (BDE) board and asked that the appointments be placed on the committee consent calendar.

Dylan Southern, director of building decarbonization at the Colorado Energy Office and the BDE board administrator, told the committee that HB 25 12 69 created the enterprise to provide technical and financial resources to improve building energy efficiency, reduce costs and cut emissions. Southern said the board adopted a temporary $400 fee per covered building and began permanent rulemaking in January 2026; he said the permanent rulemaking went into effect March 17, 2026.

Nominees introduced their qualifications: Cameron Millard, a clean-energy specialist with the Town of Vail, said he brings local-government and energy-code experience; Mike Truitt described about 15 years in residential and commercial energy-conservation work, focusing recently on HVAC; Grant Nelson described decades in commercial real estate and earlier work on CPACE enabling legislation; Aaron Martinez said he works at Urban Land Conservancy on affordability and equitable allocation of decarbonization resources; Crystal Schubert said she leads external affairs and policy work at Xcel Energy focused on clean-energy implementation; and Wojtek Gretka said his background includes public-sector standards work and building-energy modeling.

Committee questions touched on nomenclature and background: Senator Sullivan made a lighthearted comment about the BDE acronym’s online context; Senator Ball asked Martinez to elaborate on specific decarbonization experience, and Martinez cited work with the Weatherization Assistance Program and recent all-electric affordable housing projects.

The committee moved the six appointments to the full Senate with a favorable recommendation; Senator DeBauch made the motion and the clerk’s roll call returned a unanimous result. The committee directed that the appointments be added to the consent calendar.

Next steps: The nominations will be transmitted to the full Senate for confirmation consideration; the committee recorded the favorable recommendation and consent-calendar placement.