(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, …

(Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents the Solar Energy Industries Association.) By Ryan Randazzo | Arizona Republic Arizona utility regulators on Wednesday continued to punish Arizona Public Service Co. with a series of decisions that cut further into the company’s profitability and ability to charge customers for things like a coal plant and for having solar on their roofs. All told, …

The APS Red Rock Solar Facility By Ryan Randazzo | Arizona Republic Utility regulators approved a substantial reduction in Arizona Public Service Co.’s profitability on Wednesday, but delayed decisions on two other major elements of the utility’s latest request to raise rates. The cut in the APS “return on equity,” the profit the regulated utility is allowed to earn, and other …