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Conservatives should seek to enable and fairly value solar power
Competitive markets are at the heart of American economic prosperity and stability. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been true of the monopoly-led, scandal-prone Arizona electricity industry.
We all have a stake in the benefits of solar
The Arizona Corporation Commission is holding a proceeding to determine the value of rooftop solar, the value that utilities should pay customers who deliver electricity back to the grid. It is clear that rooftop solar benefits all Arizonans.
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.
Corp Comm candidates doubt human role in climate change
Four of the five Republican candidates for Arizona Corporation Commission said Monday night they’re not convinced that human activity contributes to climate change.
Last nuclear power plant in California to close by 2025
The rooftop panels and churning turbines of booming solar and wind energy are helping make U.S. nuclear power plants, with all the safety fears and rising costs they bring, obsolete, some experts say. So much so that Californiaai??i??s largest utility and environmental groups struck a deal on June 21 to shutter the last facility in the state.
Forum focuses on energy policies in Democratic platform
A forum in Phoenix aimed at gathering grass-roots voices to help shape the Democratic Party platform drew calls on June 17 for a tax on carbon emissions to curb climate change and for an end to the practice of fracking in natural gas production.
Tobin bristles as APS urges Corp Comm to ignore his plan
The newest state utility regulator is blasting Chairman Doug Little for sidelining a discussion of whether Arizona Public Service should be forced to use some of the cash it has from ratepayers to reduce peak energy demand through battery storage.
APS acts to quell concerns over consumer rate hike letter
Arizona Public Service sought to quickly quash concerns last week that a letter submitted as a part of its request for a rate increase gave the appearance that dozens of government officials and nonprofit groups supported raising customers’ utility bills.
Solar use prompts electric co-op to seek increased fees
A small electric cooperative is trying again to change the way it handles solar by changing net metering and upping fixed charges, a move critics say will cripple the industry in its territory.
APS to push for controversial demand rates
The state’s largest electric utility wants to move its residential customers to demand rates, a controversial mechanism that critics say would mean higher bills for many ratepayers.
Solar energy initiative may face two competing measures
Two ballot referrals would regulate solar companies as public service corporations and require the Arizona Corporation Commission to change rates and rules for solar.
Utility drops bid to have all residential customers pay demand charge
A small utility that serves parts of rural Arizona is dropping its bid for new controversial rates for all residential customers, but keeping its plan to move solar customers onto those rates.
