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Corp Comm dismisses net metering request
The Arizona Corporation Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to dismiss an electric cooperative’s request to alter net metering, instead saying the matter should be handled in its ongoing rate case.
Corp Comm seeks money to raise investigators’ pay
The Arizona Corporation Commission wants to bump up pay for its securities investigators, which the agency says it continues to lose to other departments that pay better.
Data company enters Corp Comm election debate
An Arizona-based data center company entered the heated debate over whether the Arizona Corporation Commission can require utilities to disclose their election spending.
Little wrote 2013 resolution opposing net metering policies
The resolution calls on the commission to abandon its net metering policy and “adopt a new rate structure for residential rooftop solar customers that would fairly apportion electrical grid maintenance costs to all customers and end the current unfair cost shift to non-solar utility customers.”
APS report breaks down costs of serving solar customers
A typical rooftop solar customer costs Arizona Public Service $118 to serve each month, but the customer only pays about $51 of that, the utility said today.
Investor group says APS subpoena would violate First Amendment
Issuing a subpoena to force disclosure of potential Arizona Public Service election spending opens up a host of legal and policy issues, a utility investor group argued.
Most of this year’s solar fee proposals are abandoned – for now
There’s only one solar fee proposal left standing after months of back-and-forth between solar groups and utilities, but a judge recently recommended that the application be dismissed.
APS drops bid for solar fee increase, blames “political gamesmanship”
Arizona Public Service dropped its bid to increase its solar fee today, claiming "attacks and distortions' from rooftop solar groups muddied the request to increase the fee.
Senate GOP: Texts related to govt. business not public records
Arizona Senate Republicans refuse to turn over text messages between President Andy Biggs and other leaders regarding government business because the caucus does not consider the records public.
Advocacy group urges Corp Comm to reconsider solar fee vote
A solar advocacy group today filed a motion calling on the Arizona Corporation Commission to reconsider its decision to move forward with a solar fee hearing outside of a rate case.
Former Corporation Commissioners seek rehearing in APS solar case
Two former Corporation Commissioners and a solar company say Commissioners Tom Forese and Doug Little should have recused themselves from the proceeding on Arizona Public Service’s solar fee increase. In a separate motion, solar company Sunrun says Commissioner Bob Stump should have recused himself from the proceeding because he has prejudged the net metering issue.
Former Supreme Court justice says Corp Comm has authority to subpoena utility
Former Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Zlaket said the commission has the clear authority to subpoena a public service corporation’s spending. Solar advocacy group The Alliance for Solar Choice asked Zlaket to provide a legal opinion on the commission’s subpoena power, and the group filed Zlaket’s letter to the utility electioneering docket Thursday.
