Across Arizona, families are facing impossible choices: paying for groceries or paying the light bill, covering prescriptions or keeping the AC running in 110-degree heat. These are not hypothetical scenarios. They are a daily reality for too many Arizonans. Now, Arizona Public Service wants to make survival even harder. The utility is proposing a 14% rate[...]

Arizona regulators will vote this week on whether to officially begin the process to repeal renewable energy standards for many of the state’s electric utilities that were first adopted 19 years ago. Last year, the Arizona Corporation Commission took the first steps to repeal the Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff, or REST, rules. The rules[...]

Local leaders in Tucson have voted not to allow a proposed data center with ties to Amazon known as Project Blue to move forward. The massive 290-acre data center would have been built southeast of downtown. Mayor Regina Romero and the Tucson City Council were set to vote on the matter next week. But during[...]

Arizona’s largest utility will no longer seek to achieve net zero emissions by 2050 and will also scrap its interim climate goals, company officials said Wednesday. The announcement by Arizona Public Service comes amid a period of massive load growth fueled by data centers and extreme heat in the state. Ted Geisler, the CEO of[...]

Tucson Electric Power will likely need to build a new natural gas plant to serve the second big data center complex planned for Project Blue, a spokesman said this week. But if that does happen — and TEP says it hasn’t decided yet if it will serve that complex — the utility will build the[...]