Arizona Policy: Commission Extends PURPA Solar Contract Terms to 18 years

The Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) voted to reject a request from the state’s investor-owned utilities to set two-year contract [...]

Strong Clean Energy Policy Helps States Move Forward With Distributed Energy Resources

Even in the most forward-thinking states, progress on folding DERs into the grid has been uneven at best. Distributed [...]

Inside Arizona’s Latest Clash Over Renewable Energy Targets

Most stakeholders agree the state needs more renewables, but they don’t agree on how to get there. Arizona’s politics [...]

New Law Aims to Cripple Initiative Pushing for Higher Renewable Energy Standards

A new law quickly pushed through the Arizona Legislature and backed by Arizona Public Service Co. and other business interests is [...]

Arizona Regulators Freeze New Gas Plants, Demand More Clean Energy Planning From Utilities

Arizona’s energy future took an unexpected turn this week. At a hearing Tuesday for the routine assessment of major [...]

Arizona Utility Buys Solar Power at ‘Historically Low Price’

Arizona utility Tucson Electric Power (TEP) said this week that it will buy solar energy at a historically low price from a new [...]

Arizona Utility Files Rate Settlement Agreement with Solar Net Metering Compromise

Solar industry stakeholders in Arizona have reached an agreement with the state’s largest utility that improves on a decision made [...]

Arizona Commission Overhauls Rules for Net Metering, Distributed Generation

The Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) voted 4 to 1 on Dec. 21 to restructure how distributed generation (DG) is [...]

Utilities Spend Big In Arizona Solar Energy Fight As Final Decision Looms

Utility commissioners in Arizona will decide the fate of rooftop solar incentives this week, in what has become the [...]

Interior Department OKs 520 MW of Solar, Geothermal Projects

The U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) gave the go-ahead to 520 MW of renewable energy projects, including two solar and one [...]