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... (ASU) and PayPal to purchase greater amounts of renewable energy.  The Commission’s approval paves the way for Arizona Public Service Company (APS) to develop a new 40 MW solar photovoltaic power ...
... represents people who invest in utilities, strongly supports forcing all residential customers onto a rate plan with demand fees, AIC lawyer Meghan Grabel said at Tuesday's hearing. Grabel said demand ...
3. Navajo Nation on Track for First Utility-Scale Solar Plant
(News and Events/AIC News)
... Haase, general manager of the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority. Photovoltaic panels will be spread throughout 300 acres in Kayenta. “It will be our first step in the green economy of the Navajo Nation,” ...
4. Months Before Solar-Rates Case is Heard, a Fight for Public Support
(News and Events/AIC News)
... or energy efficiency, can save water in equal measure, but he said at the event that those technologies also have a role to play. "Photovoltaic solar panels work no matter what," he said. "Solar panels ...
... requires a healthy financial base, adequate rates to cover the costs of service, and a realistic opportunity to earn a reasonable return on investment.     A major component of AIC’s mission ...
6. TEP Proposes More Equitable Credits for New Solar Power System Users
(News and Events/AIC News)
... of photovoltaic (PV) arrays that cost more than $8 per watt of system capacity.   PV system prices have fallen steadily since then to less than $3 per watt, driving annual increases in the installation ...
7. SRP Customers, Stakeholders, Lament Solar Rate-Hike Process
(News and Events/AIC News)
... archaic rules," said Larky Hodges, a SRP customer with solar who lives in the Ahwatukee excluded area. "We are in a part of town with no voting rights, and that is pretty upsetting."   Hodges ...
8. Large Solar Plant to be Built in Florence, Produce Power for SRP
(News and Events/AIC News)
... next year, and by Christmas of 2015, the Sandstone Solar Power Plant should be pumping out electricity.   Salt River Project has a 21-year agreement for 45 megawatts of solar photovoltaic energy ...
9. APS Opens New Solar Plant Near Gila Bend
(News and Events/AIC News)
... traditional photovoltaic panels used in the other Gila Bend locations, Solana's panels heat oil, which produces steam that turns turbines and creates electricity.   Solana utilizes storage tanks ...
10. AIC Newsletter
(News and Events/AIC News)
Check out AIC's newsletter, Connect, located in AIC's Reports and Newsletters Section (located in the left hand column near the bottom of our homepage).  Visit us often for the latest edition! If ...
11. The Rating Also Rises
(Blog/Blog)
... purchase of gas-fired generation to diversity its power supply to customers. AIC’s testimony submitted earlier this year identified the credit upgrades (LINK) that could result from Fortis’ capacity ...
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(News and Events/AIC News)
... to install company-owned photovoltaic systems on residential customers’ roofs, free of upfront charges. In exchange, customers would pay a fixed monthly electric rate based on historical usage — estimated ...
AIC Testimony Supports Settlement of UNS/Fortis Merger Last week, AIC filed testimony of its President and CEO, Gary Yaquinto, in support of the agreement reached among the parties to the joint application ...
... lawsuits, which could slow or halt implementation.   In 2009, AIC issued a report prepared for it by economists from Arizona State University to evaluate the economic tradeoffs should a cap-and-trade ...
15. 2014 ACC Candidates Respond to Questions
(News and Events/AIC News)
*** 2014 ACC Candidates Respond to Questions*** Updated to Inlcude Only the Questionnaire Reponses From Candidates Left in the General Election AIC recently asked the seven candidates running for the ...
16. Rooftop Solar in the News Again
(Blog/Blog)
... additional oversight.  Whether reconsideration of bringing SolarCity and others into the ACC’s regulatory fold has reached the tipping point for action by Commissioners remains an open question. AIC ...
17. AIC Board Meetings
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AICBoardMeetings  ...
18. Arizona's Solar Flare Up
(News and Events/AIC News)
... SolarCity and SunRun, which install photovoltaic panels for free and then charge customers for their electric generation. These "solar-leasing" companies pocket all of the government subsidies including ...
19. Solar energy farm gets county OK
(News and Events/AIC News)
... next year it could become the area’s largest solar farm, generating 35 megawatts of power for Tucson Electric Power.   The board voted 5-0 to approve a conditional use permit for the photovoltaic ...
20. APS Solar Plant Produces Electricity, Even After Dark
(News and Events/AIC News)
... into the evening during the warmest months. Even without using heat storage, the power from solar-thermal plants is more consistent than that of photovoltaic power plants, which fluctuate with every ...
21. An Epic Battle Between Solar Firms and Power Utilities Could Leave One Side Unplugged
(News and Events/AIC News)
... of RSCS' corporate office at Lakeview. She adds that the electricity generated from the photovoltaic panels could power an estimated 347 homes. Her dollar figure is averaged over more than 30 years, ...
22. APS, Solar Industry at Odds on Value of Power From Rooftop Units
(News and Events/AIC News)
... recognize that.” APS commissioned a similar study in 2009 that pegged the value as high as 14 cents per kilowatt-hour. The new report for APS was produced by SAIC Energy, Environment and Infrastructure ...
23. Innovative Ratemaking at the ACC: Financing Aging and Deteriorating Water Systems in Arizona
(Blog/Blog)
Innovative Ratemaking at the ACC:  Financing Aging and Deteriorating Water Systems in Arizona AIC’s 2008 study of infrastructure requirements over the next two decades projected that in the areas ...
24. ACC Addresses Water Infrastructure
(Blog/Blog)
... Law Judge rejected the company’s DSIC proposal in her recommendation to the Commission. AIC has been a staunch supporter of DSICs as a way to help finance badly-needed water and wastewater infrastructure ...
25. More on Shifting Demographics and Policy Implications
(Blog/Blog)
... report builds upon the Gallup Poll commissioned by CFA in 2009 (AIC was a sponsor of the first report) to find out what Arizonans want their future to look like.  AWW 2.0 identifies changes since ...
26. West Valley Solar Industry Feels Growing Pains
(News and Events/AIC News)
... the same time, Goodyear’s Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. cut production of photovoltaic panels and laid off 50 people, about half its workforce. Suntech received $500,000 worth of incentives from Goodyear. ...
27. Congress Votes: Parity for Capital Gains and Dividend Tax Rates
(Blog/Blog)
... on New Year's-day to permanently extend the lower Bush-era income tax rates for individuals earning less than $400,000 annually and for families earning less than $450,000. Of particular note for AIC ...
28. TEP Testimony
(News and Events/AIC Briefs)
  AIC filed testimony in support of TEP's Environmental Compliance Adjustor on Friday, December 21, 2012. You may view the testimony here.  ...
29. At Long Last: Moving Forward with Rate Making Reforms for Water Companies
(Blog/Blog)
...  I sent a letter on behalf of AIC in support of the changes (you can read it here), and asking the Commission to issue a Policy Statement outlining its preferences in moving the reforms through the Commission. ...
30. ACC Debate Part II: Does Retail Competition in Electricity Make Sense for Arizona?
(Blog/Blog)
... debacle. Ms. Busching also stated that she might consider implementing competition on a trial basis. An AIC note on this issue -- AIC and AARP are not always on the same side of issues involving services ...
31. Goldilocks and the Six ACC Candidates
(Blog/Blog)
Goldilocks and the Six ACC Candidates Last week's AIC-sponsored debate among the candidates vying for the three open seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission drew a capacity audience of 170 at Rio ...
32. Letter to ACC: Change Regulation of Water Companies
(Blog/Blog)
... treatment for water companies. AIC's White Paper on regulatory reform, issued in 2008, also emphasized the need for streamlining and modernizing regulation of water companies to lessen the public and ...
33. Tucson Tech: Creative Solar Programs Earn TEP Top Industry Award
(News and Events/AIC News)
... utility, Hamm said. Hamm also cited TEP's use of new technologies, including its work with the University of Arizona. Working with the UA, TEP has fostered the installation of several photovoltaic ...
34. Solar Trade Wars: A Lose/Lose Proposition
(Blog/Blog)
... preliminary anti-dumping duties on Chinese manufacturers of crystalline silicon photovoltaic (CSPV) cells. Suntech and Trina Solar were assessed preliminary tariffs of 31.22 and 31.14 percent, respectively. ...
35. ACC Moving in Right Direction
(Blog/Blog)
... customers suffer since the higher costs of capital are eventually passed through in rates. In our 2008 White Paper, "Streamlining Administrative and Ratemaking Processes," AIC offered several ...
36. AIC News
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37. AIC News Archive
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38. AIC Events
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39. AIC Briefs
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40. AIC Board of Directors Meeting
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41. AIC Board of Directors Meeting
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42. AIC Board of Directors Meeting
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43. Economic Tradeoffs of Carbon Controls
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"The Economic Tradeoffs of Carbon Control: How Much It Will Cost and Who Will Be Affected" (held in conjunction with the AIC Annual Meeting) hosted by AIC and Az Businesses Advancing Sustainability Dec. ...

News & Events

ACC Special Open Meeting
Friday, 01 April 2016
Solar Advocates, Residents Will Speak on UniSource Rate Hikes
Wednesday, 30 March 2016
Tobin Running to Keep Corp Comm Seat
Tuesday, 29 March 2016
Judge Won't Release Stump's Text Messages
Monday, 28 March 2016
Corp Comm, RUCO Face Off Over Water Rate Issue
Friday, 25 March 2016
Corporation Commissioner Andy Tobin has Relatives for Cox, SolarCity
Friday, 25 March 2016
Attorney General's Office Says Some Bob Stump Texts Could be Public
Thursday, 24 March 2016
Some Texts Deleted by Utility Record Were Public Records, State AG Finds
Wednesday, 23 March 2016
Current Utility News
Current News

AIC Briefs

AIC Testimony in Cost/Value of Solar Docket
Tuesday, 23 February 2016

AIC Surrebuttal in UNS Case
Tuesday, 23 February 2016

AIC Letter Supporting CenturyLink
Tuesday, 02 February 2016

AIC'S Oppostiion to AURA's Motion to Extend Procedural Schedule
Thursday, 28 January 2016

AIC Amicus Brief to AZ Supreme Court re: RUCO v ACC
Tuesday, 15 December 2015

AIC Testimony in UNS Electric Rate Case
Wednesday, 9 December 2015

AIC Legal Memo Response to TASC
Friday, 02 October 2015

Deregulation Responsive Comments
Thursday, 17 October 2013

Deregulation Comments
Wednesday, 9 October 2013


Conferences

Click the links below to watch the upcoming debate or watch the archived debated.

 

Reports and Newsletters

Connect - December 23, 2015

Connect - October 8, 2015

Connect - July 23, 2015

Connect - March 11, 2015

Connect - December 23, 2014

Connect - November 7, 2014

2015 Annual Report

2014 Annual Report

Study of Studies: Economic Impacts
of GHG Regulation

Carbon Controls Fact Sheet

Economic Impact of Carbon Controls
in Arizona (full report)

Infrastructure Needs and Funding
Alternatives  For Arizona: 2008-2032
(Full Report)

Infrastructure Needs and Funding
Alternatives For Arizona: 2008-2032
(Executive Summary)

Streamlining Administrative &
Ratemaking Processes of the ACC