How the G.O.P. bill will reshape America’s energy landscape; Court Rich, Rose Law Group director of renewable energy & utility infrastructure and the firm’s co-founder, weighs in

By Brad Plumer | New York Times The giant policy bill muscled through Congress by Republicans is poised to remake American energy by slashing tax breaks for wind and solar power and electric cars while maintaining some federal support for sources like nuclear reactors and geothermal plants. The legislation, which carries President Trump’s domestic policy agenda, provides a boost to fossil fuels and …

Court Rich, co-founder of Rose Law Group and director of the firm’s renewable energy & utility infrastructure department, quoted in Axios report on how data center boom is testing Arizona’s power grid

By Jeremy Duda | Axios Data centers consume an inordinate amount of electricity, and the Corporation Commission is trying to figure out how to cope with the demand. The big picture: With low energy costs and few natural disasters, the Phoenix metro area has become one of the top data center markets in the U.S. Those buildings house computer equipment for data storage and …

Providers confident at Pinal Partnership ‘State of Energy’ discussion moderated by Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder, director of renewable energy & utility infrastructure

By Mark Cowling | Pinal Central The Valley and Pinal County are growing so quickly that the energy capacity that Salt River Project spent 100 years building and acquiring must now be doubled in 10 years. “The growth that we’re seeing is tremendous … more than double what we saw in the previous decade,” Bill McClellan, SRP’s senior manager of …

Navajo County BOS approves solar project outside Snowflake

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Stellar Renewable Power.) By Toni Gibbons | White Mountain Independent The Navajo County Board of Supervisors approved a special use permit for the Stellar Red Hills Solar project at the Nov. 12 meeting, setting the stage for a 1,000-megawatt solar power facility and battery storage system northwest of Snowflake. The project, sprawling across 9,213 acres …

BrightNight and Cordelio sign PPA deal with APS for 1,200MWh BESS; a big boost for ‘reliable power,’ says Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder and director of the firm’s renewable energy & utility infrastructure department

The Pioneer clean energy center will be built in Yuma County, Arizona. Image: BrightNight (Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents BrightNight.) Court Rich, co-founder of Rose Law Group and director of the firm’s renewable energy & utility infrastructure department, tells RLGR: “This project will go a long way to helping Arizona meet its ever-increasing need for more reliable power. By combining solar and batteries …

Pinal Partnership: Debunking myths about solar energy

(Disclosure: Jordan Rose, founder and president of Rose Law Group, is chair of the Pinal Partnership Board, and Court Rich, director of the firm’s renewable energy & utility infrastructure department, is chair of the organization’s Renewable Energy Committee.) By Anthony Smith | Pinal Central Keeping up with the growing need for energy to support our growing economy, commercial solar facilities …

Mines say they’re striving to reduce need for groundwater

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Arizona Sonoran Copper Company and Resolution Copper.) By Pinal Central Arizona has long been proud of its copper, although mines claim a hefty share of precious groundwater. A study conducted for the San Carlos Apache Tribe three years ago estimated Resolution Copper next to Superior will use 250 billion gallons of water over the course of the …

WATCH: When Rio Tinto expects to start producing copper from Resolution mine

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Resolution Copper.) By Bloomberg Rio Tinto Chief Executive Officer Jakob Stausholm says the company aims to start churning out copper from a long-delayed mining project in Arizona by the end of the decade. “From a permitting point of view, we are towards the end of the process,” Stausholm said Thursday on Bloomberg TV.

MILLIGAN ENERGY CENTER: Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder and director of the firm’s renewable energy & utility infrastructure department, helps secure project approval in Eloy

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Milligan Energy Center.) By David Church | Pinal Central ELOY — Solar farms have been a hotbed topic in Pinal County for several years. With more and more proposed solar projects reaching city council meetings, there are certainly advocates and opposition for the energy source. During Monday’s Eloy City Council meeting, another solar project was …

What does Court Rich — Rose Law Group co-founder and director of the firm’s renewable energy & utility infrastructure department — think about the plan to restart Three Mile Island nuclear plant?

By Brian Martucci | Utility Dive Dive Brief: Constellation Energy plans to restart the 835-MW Three Mile Island Unit 1 nuclear generating station in Pennsylvania in 2028, the company said Friday. Microsoft will purchase energy from the reactivated power plant over 20 years to match power consumed by its data centers in the PJM Interconnection, Constellation said in a news release. But there …