KJZZ’s “The Show” interviewed Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder, senior partner, and director of Renewable Energy and Regulatory Law Departments, on Thursday. Listen to the interview here on KJZZ:
Arizona regulators set solar power standard contract at 18 years long — is a PURPA solar boom coming?
For the first time, the state’s public utility commission has created a standard contract length for PURPA solar projects — in stark contrast to utility APS requesting a two-year term. By John Weaver | PV Magazine If you Google Yuma, Arizona you’ll find references to the city being among the sunniest in the world. Looking at the solar insolation map …
ACC votes to support solar development in Arizona
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents solar developers that prevailed on this issue AZBigMedia Today, the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) voted to reject a request from the state’s investor-owned utilities to set two-year contract terms for renewable energy projects under the federal Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA). Instead, commissioners voted unanimously to set contract terms at 18 years, providing renewable energy developers …
Disruptor of the Year: Sunrun
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Sunrun The solar and storage developer has been pioneering new business models to increase aggregation of distributed resources. By Iulia Gheorghiu | Utility Drive 2019 has been a huge year of firsts for the distributed resource industry: It saw the first aggregated solar and storage systems to win a bid in the wholesale market (in …
Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder and renewable energy director talks solar, battery rules and regulations with KJZZ
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:
California ditched coal. The gas company is worried it’s next; ‘why use gas when we can use sunshine instead,’ Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder asks
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 — …
[OPINION] How to keep the lights on in wildfire season — go solar; but not only during fire season, says Rose Law Group Co-Founder Court Rich
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] Rose Law Group Co-Founder Court Rich in AZCentral: Here’s the question no one is asking about APS’s secret spending
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 …
Solar competition fight heats up at ACC; utilities stalling renewable energy projects
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 …
Microsoft data centers in Goodyear, El Mirage to have renewable energy focus
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 …
