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Cynthia Zwick: An advocate for utility customers
Cynthia Zwick runs the Residential Utility Consumer Office, a state agency that represents utility customers in rate cases at the Arizona Corporation Commission. She sat down with the Arizona Capitol […]
Electric utility lobbying efforts win big in 2025
Key Points: Electric utility companies had two bills passed to protect their financial assets in 2025 Companies like Arizona Public Service Co. have also donated huge amounts of money across […]
Critics of utility measure urge veto if it lands on Hobbs’ desk
Key Points: Bill would allow utility companies to move debt into low-interest bonds Critics say the process can be good, but lacks safeguards to protect residential utility customers Utility companies […]
TEP seeks rate hike despite company’s rising profits
The Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) is set for an Aug. 8 vote on Tucson Electric Power’s (TEP) latest rate hike request. This proposed 11.8% hike comes on the heels of the ACC’s decision to boost the monopoly utility’s “Purchased Power and Fuel Adjustor Clause,” which has already increased customer bills by more than $114 per year.
Watchdog fights to protect consumers, keeps tabs on utility companies and commission that regulates them
Phoenix resident Abhay Padgaonkar has worked as a fierce consumer advocate, fighting for the rights of those who struggle to pay their utility bills and keeping tabs on utility companies and the commission that regulates them.
SRP solar plant northwest of Flagstaff expected to offset 1 billion pounds of CO2 each year
Salt River Project has partnered with Clēnera, a private renewable energy company, to bring Arizona its largest solar plant by 2024. Construction of the CO Bar Solar plant will begin this year on 2,400 acres of private land northwest of Flagstaff in Coconino County.
Appeals court rules SRP liable for higher solar rooftop electric rates
A major Arizona utility’s can be held liable for violating antitrust laws through its policies of charging higher rates for electricity to its customers who choose to install rooftop solar […]
Arizona utility helps fund Ducey re-election campaign
Pinnacle West Capital Corp., parent company of Arizona Public Service, has donated $10,200 to the Ducey for Governor campaign through its political action committee.
Navajo Nation on track for first utility-scale solar plant
A Navajo community south of Monument Valley will be home to the tribe's first utility-scale solar plant capable of powering 7,700 homes on average.
APS drops bid for solar fee increase, blames “political gamesmanship”
Arizona Public Service dropped its bid to increase its solar fee today, claiming "attacks and distortions' from rooftop solar groups muddied the request to increase the fee.
Small Maricopa electric company cracks down on solar
A small not-for-profit utility that mostly serves the city of Maricopa cut savings for solar by reducing net metering rates and adding a monthly fee for solar customers.
Phone logs connect Corporation Commissioner to campaigns, ‘dark money’ and utility
Arizona Corporation Commissioner Bob Stump repeatedly communicated with the executive director of a “dark money” group that spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help elect the candidates he backed, while also keeping regular contact with those candidates, their campaign manager, and a senior executive of the state’s largest utility, Arizona Public Service, according to recently released[...]
