Issue: energy
Editor’s note: This guest commentary was erroneously published after Commissioner Lea Marquez Peterson voted on an amendment to change the proposed energy rules to goals. The Conservatives for Responsible Stewardship...
Affordable energy needed during pandemic, summer heat wave
As the coronavirus continues to upend the country, Americans are facing unique challenges. Millions are out of work and struggling to make ends meet. If that isn’t bad enough, electricity bills are...
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American independence includes freedom to choose energy sources
America was founded on the principles of liberty and independence. People fled to America for the right to live and worship in freedom. Many lives were lost in that endeavor,...
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Anti-Trump group seeks to put energy policy on ballot
A national group led by a billionaire hoping to impeach Donald Trump is helping to fund an effort to force Arizona utilities to get half their energy from renewable sources...
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Cities defend progress after slipping in clean energy ranking
Clean energy ballot measure could close nuclear plant
Clean energy investment, economic development go hand-in-hand
For years, there has been a running narrative that conservatives are not committed to addressing our real and pressing climate challenges. That is, in part, because the conversation has been...
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Electricity grid not ready for EV revolution
America’s energy future will be shaped to a significant degree by two new tensions that are rapidly converging. A massive number of electric vehicles (EVs) will soon be populating our...
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Future hinges on new energy infrastructure
Little to resign from Corp Comm for job in Trump administration
Arizona Corporation Commissioner Doug Little (Photo by Rachel Leingang/ Arizona Capitol Times) Arizona Corporation Commissioner Doug Little will resign his post after taking a job with...
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Misinformed lawmakers poised to raise electricity cost
Remarkably, right now the Arizona Legislature is considering nonsensical legislation that will lead to higher utility bills for the state’s residents. Identical measures in the House and Senate, HB2248 and...
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Peabody says potential buyers could keep Navajo Generating Station open
The coal-fired Navajo Generating Station in northeast Arizona provides almost 1,000 jobs between the plant and the mine that supplies it, but the plant’s operators have...
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SRP doesn’t want customers to have a choice
SRP’s baffling, costly natural gas expansion
Arizona residents who get their electricity from Salt River Project should be outraged at the utility’s proposal to expand its Coolidge Generating Station by adding — in utter defiance of...
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Steyer: APS using “dishonest tactics” against clean energy initiative
In this photo taken Wednesday, June 27, 2018, environmental activist & billionaire Tom Steyer poses at his offices in San Francisco. Arizona’s largest utility is fiercely...
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The case for U.S. leadership on advanced coal technology
While it can feel like the world is in the midst of an energy transition—where one source of energy is replaced by another—that’s not what’s happening. Instead of transition, we’re...
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We need energy reliability and affordability, not power outages
Americans have been hoping for economic recovery and a return to normalcy. Instead, they’re experiencing ongoing pandemic concerns and the ravages of wildfires and hurricanes. And adding to their woes, they’re now...