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Corp Comm chairman hopes to ‘up the game’ for renewables
The chairman of the Arizona Corporation Commission wants to double the state’s renewable energy standards, which dictate how much energy utilities must generate from renewable sources like wind and solar.
Commissioner Doug Little’s reply to Scott Hempling
I wanted to take a few moments to respond to your letter to me dated August 15, 2016. Based on your stated interpretation of my position expressed in the August 11th Commission Staff Meeting, I believe you may be drawing an incorrect conclusion.
A letter from Scott Hempling to Commissioner Doug Little
To Doug Little, Chairman, Arizona Corporation Commission At the Commission meeting of August 11, 2016, you stated there was some connection among myself, the Energy Foundation, SolarCity, former ACC Commissioner Kris Mayes and the re-election campaign of Commissioner Burns; and that such connection would affect my objectivity. It is said that “a lie can travel halfway around the world before th[...]
Commissioners vote down Burns’ investigation into outside influences
Calling it a "fishing expedition,'' three state utility regulators late Thursday quashed a bid by a fourth for an outside look into whether the panel has been or can be subject to improper outside influences.
Election backlash played central role in Little and Forese’s first year
The first year in office wasn’t exactly quiet for new Corporation Commissioners Tom Forese and Doug Little. After a few months of relative calm, several utilities filed requests for solar fees or changes to net metering, kicking off a firestorm of criticism of the entire commission.
Arizona regulators seek compromise for solar installations
Two Arizona utility regulators are working to reach a compromise between rooftop-panel installers and big utilities.
Commissioners choose Doug Little as interim chairman
The four remaining members of the Arizona Corporation Commission on Tuesday chose Doug Little as interim chairman of the panel -- and the likely permanent replacement for Susan Bitter Smith.
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.”
Commissioners conclude they aren’t biased in solar case
After a moment of introspection, three energy regulators have concluded they hold no prejudices and there’s no need to recuse themselves from hearing a now-withdrawn proposal by Arizona Public Service to hike the monthly solar fee by 320 percent.
Solar groups demand recusals from 3 commissioners
Forese and Little must recuse themselves from the proceeding on APS’s solar fee increase, according to a filing from attorney Hugh Hallman, on behalf of two former commissioners, Renz Jennings and Bill Mundell, and solar company Sunrun.
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.
DPS declines to examine Stump’s ACC cell phone, request now with Phoenix police
State police will not examine the cell phone of Bob Stump to determine if it contains deleted text messages that can be retrieved.
