In documents filed late Friday, Andy Tobin wants the current commission to tell affected companies to immediately start putting the additional money they're collecting from customers into an interest-bearing account. In the interim, he said regulators will review the policy change enacted at the behest of Gary Pierce.

Energy regulators yesterday approved a proposal by Southern Arizona’s largest electricity provider to install solar panels on homes, a move that was heavily opposed by the rooftop solar industry.

At least two energy regulators are highly skeptical of a proposal by the state’s biggest utility to enter the rooftop solar market.

The Arizona Corporation Commission decided today to formally reconsider the state’s renewable energy standards, a potential blow to the state’s rooftop solar industry.

Negotiators quietly forged 11th-hour net metering compromise

As it turned out, Arizona’s battle over solar net metering wasn’t what it seemed.

As it reaches a climax, the months-long campaign to reduce a key incentive for residential solar has given Arizonans a glimpse into a nearly obscure but powerful body of regulators that oversees some of Arizona’s biggest industries.

Arizona’s energy regulators hunkered down this morning in front of an overflowing hearing room as users of solar rooftop panels urged them not to stifle the growth of residential solar in the state.

Arizona’s energy regulators dug deep into the legal complications surrounding a proposal to open up the state’s electric market to competition.

Reversing a decades-old policy, the Arizona Corporation Commission will allow the owners of small utility companies to pass their income taxes off to consumers across the state.

Arizona voters have selected the three GOP candidates running for the Arizona Corporation Commission over their Democratic opponents, meaning the five-person commission that oversees Arizona’s utility industry will be comprised entirely of Republicans.