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AARP wrong: Only restructuring can save Arizona’s ratepayers
Full restructuring of electricity markets in Arizona offers the best antidote for the outdated monopoly model.
Regulators take utility disconnection rules under consideration
State utility regulators are trying to determine how hot is too hot – and least when it comes when blocking electric companies from shutting off the power to customers.
APS executive makes no promises on future political spending
The incoming chief executive of Pinnacle West Capital Corp. refused Wednesday to promise that the company won't spend money in the future to elect utility regulators of its choosing.
Brandt questioning to include campaign spending
A hearing Wednesday on the turnoff policies of the state's largest electric company is turning into an examination of its use of money to gain political influence, both past and future.
Regulators want answers on APS summer disconnections
Arizona Public Service CEO Don Brandt will be on the hot seat September 4 when utility regulators are expected to probe further into the company’s disconnection practices and the death of a Sun City West woman whose power was cut off.
APS chief accepts Corp Comm invitation to testify on heat-related deaths
APS head Don Brandt has agreed to appear before the Arizona Corporation Commission at its open meeting in August to answer questions about the utilty’s disconnection rules and policies.
Commissioners press Don Brandt with questions
State utility regulators ratcheted up their demand for answers from the head of Arizona Public Service late Friday with a list of 67 questions.
APS discloses settlements in previous deaths of disconnected customers
The state's largest electric utility acknowledged Wednesday that it settled claims with the survivors of two other customers who were found dead in their homes, not counting last year's death of 72-year-old Sun City West resident Sandra Pullman.
Utility regulator to consider ban on cutting power in summer
Taken by surprise by reports that an elderly woman died a heat-related death after her power was cut off last summer, state utility regulators are now moving to curb the ability of electric companies to shut off power during the hottest months of the year.
