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Salt River Project wants to spend nearly $1 billion on 16 gas peaker plants.
SRP customers had no say in the matter. The SRP board practically rubber stamped the project and if the AZ Corporation Commission approves the Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and the project moves forward, ratepayers will be saddled with the bill. Read the rant by AZ4CC state director Shelly Gordon and our argument for energy choice and renewable energy.
Why can’t Arizona ratepayers get solar energy from their utilities?
Read the cover story in the Phoenix New Times that answers the big question, why can’t Arizona ratepayers get solar energy from their utilities? AZ4CC state director Shelly Gordon is featured in the article.
Why CCA is a much better, greener, cheaper option for TEP ratepayers
Read the latest op-ed by Shelly Gordon and Russell Lowes, published in the Arizona Star where we tell readers why CCA is a winning energy choice model for Tucson and Pima County
New Nuclear Energy Plants Are a “Fool’s Errand”
by Russell Lowes
AZ4CC Advisory Board member, Russell Lowes, penned an op-ed for the Arizona Star (Tucson), challenging the alleged benefits of developing more
nuclear energy. From a dollar standpoint, Lowes argues, why would the average consumer spend more than three times the price for new nuclear energy compared to solar energy. Dollar for dollar, the average household would get 3 kilowatt hours of new nuclear energy compared to 10 kilowatt hours of solar energy.
California CCAs Secure Almost 10,000 Megawatts in Long-Term Contracts with New-Build Clean Energy Resource
The California Community Choice Association (CalCCA) announced November 3 that Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs) in the state have to date signed long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) for almost 10,000 megawatts (MW) with new-build clean energy resources, adding more than 3,000 MW since November 2020.
Playing Monopoly; or how utilities make money
Did you know that utilities’ profit don’t come from the energy they provide to customers. Their profits come from the investment in the assets (the pipes, substations, transmission lines, etc.) that are used to provide the service. The more infrastructure a utility builds, the higher the profits.
Columbus, OH and surrounding suburbs passed ballot measures to enact Community Choice Aggregation programs!
“… considering the state’s track record of hostility toward clean energy, the passage of the measures is a testament to the hard work of activists who met with city leaders and educated community members about the issue.”
If Ohio can do it so can Arizona!!
100% of New US Power Capacity Was Wind & Solar Power in October
With another month logged and put on the record books, we have another month in which only power from renewable energy sources was added to the US electricity grid — 100% of new power capacity was from renewables.
New report makes the case for local solar + storage to lead U.S. transition to clean energy
New report makes the case for developing 247 GW of local rooftop and community solar and 160 GW of local energy storage as the most cost-effective way for the US to transition to clean energy by 2050. This would power 25% of all US homes and save consumers up to $473 billion on electricity.
APS further ensnares ratepayers
Robert Rob, columnist at AZ Republic levies assault against APS for its rate increase strategies
“APS wants ratepayers to pay for both the cost of natural gas generation prematurely mothballed, and the cost of replacement renewable generation before it is put in service. And the cost of a post-coal tribal assistance program. And to put it all on automatic pilot, so the usual step-by-step regulatory review doesn’t take place.”
Tucson declared a climate emergency with a goal to be carbon neutral by 2030
As the third-fastest warming city in the United States, Tucson is now one of more than 1,700 cities and jurisdictions to declare a climate emergency worldwide.
A landmark order passed by FERC in 2018 paving the way for energy storage deployment has been upheld in court.
A landmark order passed by FERC, Order 841, aimed at removing barriers to participation of storage in wholesale markets run by the ISOs and RTOs, was upheld by the US Court of Appeals for the DC circuit. Order 841 directs each ISO/RTO to ensure that its participation models allow storage resources “to provide all capacity, energy, and ancillary services that [they are] technically capable of providing.”
Voltus vies to unleash thousands of MWs of demand response capacity in challenge to MISO restrictions
Voltus, a demand response aggregator, likely to win FERC case whereby restrictions set by states that have the option to bar DRAs from competing on the wholesale market will be lifted. Clean energy advocates say allowing demand response participation in wholesale markets will increase competition, reduce customer costs and help regional transmission operators better manage the grid.