(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Sierra Club.) By Ryan Randazzo | Arizona Republic Arizona utility regulators on Tuesday rejected a nearly $1 billion natural-gas plant expansion in Coolidge, saying Salt River Project did not consider the impact the project would have on nearby residents. People living in the historically Black community of Randolph, an unincorporated area adjacent to the Coolidge Generating Station, erupted in …

  With the urgency to bring down gas prices, FOX 10’s John Hook talks to Court Rich, co-founder of the Rose Law Group, about where does that leave the push for green energy.

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents the Sierra Club.) By Robert Walton | Utility Drive Dive Insight: SRP’s Coolidge plant is located within the city of Coolidge, Arizona, but residents of the nearby historically black community of Randolph live closest to the facility and would be most impacted. And those residents say there has been scant contact from the utility and …

  (Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents the Sierra Club.) “If one of the traditional companies you regulate-APS or TEP were here with this same proposal right now and had not even put in an RFP (request for proposal), you would laugh them out of here. And rightly so,” Sierra Club attorney Court Rich said to Commissioners. READ THE ABC15 STORY HERE.

Rose Law Group Co-founder, Court Rich, spoke to Mark Brodie on KJZZ’s “The Show” about energy choice and competition and the broad coalition that has emerged to fight against monopoly utility attempts to rewrite the law to forever lock in their monopolies. Libertarians and conservatives have joined forces with environmentalists and clean energy advocates to protect Arizonan’s right to choose who they use for their electric provider. Hear Court talk about the merits of keeping the current laws in place while describing …

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Green Mountain Energy.)  By Ryan Randazzo | Arizona Republic A bill that would protect electric companies such as Arizona Public Service Co. and Salt River Project from competition is moving through Legislature. If it becomes law, the proposal would kill off a threat that has hung over the electric companies for more than 20 years. …

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Green Mountain Energy, a company looking to provide energy choice and 100% renewable energy options to Arizona consumers.) By Laurie Roberts | Arizona Republic In August, a Texas company applied to the Arizona Corporation Commission for permission to compete with Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power, giving us captive customers a choice in who …

By Emma Penrod | Utility Dive Dive Brief: Arizona’s Salt River Project (SRP) may be liable for antitrust violations customers say occurred when it raised electrical rates for customers with rooftop solar panels, according to a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling issued on Monday. According to the ruling, because the public power utility sets its own electric rates, it does not …

By Ryan Randazzo | Arizona Republic Three Republican utility regulators have voted down a proposal for 100% carbon-free energy in Arizona that was considered, debated, workshopped and offered for public comment for more than five years. The rules appeared on the verge of passage last year when Jim O’Connor, a Republican member of the Arizona Corporation Commission, and Anna Tovar, …