APS report breaks down costs of serving solar customers
A typical rooftop solar customer costs Arizona Public Service $118 to serve each month, but the customer only pays about $51 of that, the utility said today.
SRP board set to decide on solar charge today
Salt River Project’s board of directors will decide on a proposal today that would add a solar demand charge of about $50 on average and a 3.9 percent rate hike for all SRP users.
APS chief says solar advocacy group exists to mislead
In a company blog, the chief of Arizona’s largest utility company lashed out at the political advocacy arm of residential solar companies and highlighted the Arizona Corporation Commission candidates the group is supporting.
TUSK should stop misrepresenting Doug Little’s views
My friend, Barry Goldwater Jr., paid spokesman for TUSK ("Tell Utilities Solar Won't Be Killed"), has spoken on the race for Arizona Corporation Commission, and his words are an incitement to hearty debate. I write in defense of the candidate I have endorsed, Doug Little, whose candidacy has elicited a degree of ferocity that is entirely disproportionate to his views -- which are mainstream -- an[...]
AZ solar industry calls on Brewer to overrule rooftop solar decision
Calling it unfair — and fearing a loss of business — the state’s solar industry called on Gov. Jan Brewer on June 4 to overrule a decision by her Department of Revenue that the rooftop panels they lease are taxable.