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Rows of solar panels sit at Orsted's Eleven Mile Solar Center lithium-ion battery storage energy facility, Feb. 29, 2024, in Coolidge, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Aug 20, 2026

Arizona’s solar industry facing mounting backlash

Republican lawmakers, state regulators and some utility companies have historically been unfriendly to solar. That opposition is only increasing.

Two Lighthouse Solar employees install microcrystalline PV modules on top of a Colorado townhome in December 2011. (Photo courtesy Dennis Schroeder, National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
Nov 27, 2012

Solar-energy jobs booming in U.S.; Arizona seeing benefits

Solar energy jobs in the U.S. grew by 13 percent over the past year, a rate almost six times faster than the national average employment growth rate.

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