The Arizona Corporation Commission voted to repeal its Electric Energy Efficiency Standards on Wednesday, finalizing a process that began in 2025. Regulators adopted the efficiency rules in 2010. The rules directed utilities like Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power to reduce their cumulative energy use by 22% by 2020. To do so, utilities were[...]

Arizona’s brutal summer is hard enough without the seasonal shock of opening a utility bill. This year, the state is expected to post the country’s highest electricity costs for the hottest months, according to the Phoenix New Times. For many households, staying safe during extreme heat is becoming increasingly unaffordable.

A proposed Arizona Public Service (APS) rate increase has become a hot topic across the state, particularly in rural communities such as ours, where many households already feel the strain of rising costs. APS is seeking approval from the Arizona Corporation Commission for a rate adjustment that would increase residential bills by roughly 14%, or[...]

The Arizona Corporation Commission is supposed to protect customers from monopoly utilities, but a blistering new Arizona Court of Appeals decision shows the opposite happened in a major APS rate case. The commission’s hearing process helped create, defend and preserve a utility-friendly solar charge that APS itself had not requested. That is a troubling sign[...]

Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022 and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2021 created historic pools of funding to accelerate the transition to a more affordable clean energy economy and modernize the nation’s energy and other infrastructure. Combined, the two laws provided more than $2 trillion in funding through grants and low-interest financing,[...]