Pinal Partnership: Arizona is counting on Pinal County to boost energy production; panel moderated by Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder and director of the firm’s energy and utility infrastructure department

Panelists:  Carter Livingston, Stakeholder Relations Specialist, AES Dr. Greg Barron-Gafford, Professor and Director of Food, Energy, and Water Resilience Solutions; Biosphere 2 Andy Rhea, Supervisor of Key Accounts, Southwest Gas Richard Rosales, Public Affairs Manager, APS Bill McClellan, Director of Resource Planning, Acquisition & Development, SRP Moderator:  Court Rich, Director of Energy and Utility Infrastructure, Rose Law Group By Hannah …

Pinal Partnership’s ‘2026 Energy Experts Breakfast,’ moderated by Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder and director of the firm’s energy & utility infrastructure department

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Pinal Partnership.)  By Jodie Newell | Pinal Central Pinal County’s rapidly growing energy demand was the focus of a sold-out Pinal Partnership breakfast forum held at the Radisson Hotel on Friday, where utility representatives warned that demand is continuing to climb across Arizona. The energy forum moderated by Court Rich of the Rose Law Group included: Bill McClellan, …

Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder and director of the firm’s energy & utility infrastructure department, recommends: Blocking the construction of data centers is a national security risk

By David A. Deptula | Washington Post Debates over data center construction have generally targeted the issue as a local zoning nuisance or a threat to the environment and affordable electricity. But this overlooks a crucial fact: The rapid construction of data centers and advanced energy infrastructure required to power them are foundational to American military power and must be …

Massive energy and data center complex advances in Pinal County, with Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder and director of the energy & utility infrastructure department, presenting the case

Photo via Pinal County By Justin Mathews | Pinal Post The Pinal County Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7-2 on April 16 to recommend approval of the rezoning for the La Osa Energy Center, a combined data center and power generation project spanning 3,385 acres south of Eloy. The recommendation now moves to the Board of Supervisors. The recommendation covers …

Massive energy and data center complex heads to Pinal County P&Z, with Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder and director of the firm’s energy & utility infrastructure department, presenting the case

By Justin Mathews | Pinal Post The 3,385-acre La Osa Energy and Data Center project faces a rezoning hearing on April 16, 2026, before the Pinal County Planning and Zoning Commission. The Pinal County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a comprehensive plan amendment for the project in November 2025. That vote updated the county’s long-range vision for how the land …

ROSE LAW GROUP — A ‘RANKING ARIZONA’ TOP LAW FIRM FOR 2026!

ROSE LAW GROUP has been voted in Ranking Arizona’s 2026 public opinion poll as among the ‘BEST OF THE BEST’ law firms! Established in 2000 by JORDAN ROSE in a leased space for only herself in another lawyer’s storage room, Rose Law Group has grown today into not only the biggest law firm headquartered in Scottsdale, but also the largest woman-owned law firm in Arizona history! …

Massive energy and data center complex advances in Pinal County, with Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder and director of the energy & utility infrastructure department, presenting the case

Photo via Pinal County By Justin Mathews | Pinal Post The Pinal County Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7-2 on April 16 to recommend approval of the rezoning for the La Osa Energy Center, a combined data center and power generation project spanning 3,385 acres south of Eloy. The recommendation now moves to the Board of Supervisors. The recommendation covers …

Court Rich, co-founder of Rose Law Group and director of the firm’s energy & utility infrastructure department, comments on Arizona’s energy storage surge

By Jeff Gifford | Phoenix Business Journal A new study has found that Arizona has built up the nation’s third-highest amount of utility-scale energy storage as of 2025 and handily led the nation for its annual rate of growth in that energy storage capacity. The findings come from the Q1 2026 US Energy Storage Market Outlook recently published by the …

Arizonans fight utility rate hike after private equity takeover. In The Republic, Rose Law Group co-founder and director of the firm’s energy & utility infrastructure department, Court Rich, calls it a matter of fairness

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents homeowners fighting against this utility rate increase.) By Rose Law Group Reporter Robson Ranch residents in Eloy are righteously rattled by a rate “increase to their water and sewer bills… after their small utilities were purchased by one of the largest private equity funds in the world,” Netherlands-based CVC DIF. How much of a hike? “The utilities …

Huge acreage assembled for renewable projects in Pinal County; Court Rich, director of Rose Law Group’s energy & utility infrastructure department, comments in PBJ on the state of energy in Arizona

By Angela Gonzales | Phoenix Business Journal A Scottsdale-based land investor has assembled more than 4,000 acres of land for renewable energy projects in Pinal County. Genus LP sold 2,004 acres in Eloy to EDF Renewables Development Inc. for $22.6 million cash, closing on Dec. 5, then paid $9.5 million to Linmark LLC for another 2,115.22 acres in Eloy, closing …