Code of Colorado Regulations
700 - Department of Regulatory Agencies
723 - Public Utilities Commission
4 CCR 723-3 - RULES REGULATING ELECTRIC UTILITIES
INTERCONNECTION PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS
Section 3851 - Overview and Purpose

Infrastructure security of electric system equipment and operations and control hardware and software is essential to ensure day-to-day reliability and operational security. The Commission expects all utilities, market participants, and Interconnection Customers interconnected with electric systems to comply with the recommendations offered by the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and best practice recommendations from the electric reliability authority. All utilities are expected to meet basic standards for electric system infrastructure and operational security, including physical, operational, and cyber-security practices.

The purpose of these rules is to establish reasonable interconnection procedures and insurance requirements all utilities to adhere to when interconnecting retail renewable distributed generation, and other distributed energy resources that connect to a utility's system that operate in parallel with and are connected to the utility.