Rose Law Group Co-Founder and Director of Renewable Energy Department, Court Rich spoke with KJZZ’s The Show this morning about new rules regarding the installation of battery-storage and renewable-energy systems, voted on by regulators this week. Head to KJZZ’s The Show to listen in:
By Sammy Roth | Los Angeles Times Every day, millions of Californians burn a planet-warming fossil fuel to cook dinner, stay warm or take a hot shower. Persuading people to stop using that fuel, natural gas, is shaping up to be the next act in California’s war on climate change. And unlike the state’s successful push to ditch coal — …
By Susannah Churchill | San Francisco Chronicle Forced power outages are not the right long-term solution for people who rely on powered medical devices, critical facilities like fire stations and hospitals, and our everyday connected lives. This week’s “public safety power shut-offs” for 800,000 California customers are a stark reminder of the new normal we cannot allow ourselves to quietly accept. Instead, …
Opinion: Why did APS funnel money to support the son of a regulator when he ran for secretary of state? The Corporation Commission needs to ask. By Court Rich, opinion contributor, senior partner, Rose Law Group (Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussion purposes only.) What struck me most about the Arizona Corporation Commission’s questioning of APS CEO Don …
Rose Law Group Reporter Staff The fate of utility-scale solar energy competition in Arizona will be left to an administrative law judge after three days of hearings held by the Arizona Corporation Commission. The hearings also raised concerns that the Arizona Public Service and Tucson Electric Power utilities are not moving forward with new rural solar and renewable energy projects …
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Microsoft By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter Microsoft’s three new data centers in Goodyear and El Mirage will be powered with 100 percent renewable energy. That includes via collaborations with Tempe-based First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR), Arizona Public Service (APS) and getting solar energy from a 150MW First Solar production facility in Maricopa, according …
By Tim Sylvia | PV Magazine An amendment to Arizona’s implementation of PURPA rules which would have set minimum contract lengths to 15 years failed to pass last night, and the act now has one last chance to pass before the investment tax credit drops down, and opportunities being to dry up. Last night, a proposed amendment before Arizona regulators …
By David Wichner |Arizona Daily Star Arizona regulators are looking at changing decades-old rules requiring utilities to buy power from certain renewable energy facilities, amid a simmering dispute between utilities including Tucson Electric Power Co. and some solar project developers. At least one regulator says Arizona stands to lose hundreds of millions of dollars worth of solar energy projects unless …
By Joann Muller | Axios If carmakers have any hope of making money on electric vehicles, they’ll need to re-think how they design and sell them, a new McKinsey study suggests. Why it matters: Automakers will pour $255 billion into EVs by 2023 but are resigned to losing money on them for the foreseeable future — an expected outcome of …
By Elizabeth Whitman | Phoenix New Times From 2013 to 2018, Arizona Public Service and parent company Pinnacle West poured at least $130 million into political spending, charitable contributions, marketing and advertising, lobbying, and sponsorships. None of that money came from customers, APS claimed, as it submitted spending records to the Arizona Corporation Commission on two successive Friday afternoons, most …