Tag: Arizona

March 7, 2023

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is seeking public feedback through June 1 on its Tentative Five-Year Transportation Facilities Construction Program. The plan will invest $2.6 billion in pavement and bridge preservation projects statewide over five years. This includes $669 […]

June 15, 2022

The new clean energy tracker aims to inform the public about Arizona’s clean energy progress, while confidential meetings with business leaders will keep regulators up to speed on future plans, according to Márquez Peterson. “For too long, there has been […]

May 19, 2022

The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) will hold a public hearing Friday to discuss the 2023-2027 Tentative Five-Year Transportation Facilities Construction Program. The agency’s recommended plan for the next five years of statewide construction projects allocates $571 million for the […]

May 17, 2022

Li-Cycle Corp. (NYSE: LICY) (“Li-Cycle” or the “Company”), an industry leader in lithium-ion battery resource recovery and the leading lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, today announced that its previously announced Arizona Spoke facility located in Gilbert, Arizona has commenced […]

April 14, 2022

The Arizona Corporate Commission (ACC) has delivered a major blow to the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District’s (SRP’s) urgent plans to expand the 575-MW gas-fired Coolidge Generating Station with 820 MW of fast-start capacity. The ACC in […]

December 20, 2021

Arizona has trailed nearby states on EV infrastructure investment, so the state’s new transportation plan is “a big win,” said Kressig. Investor-owned utilities Arizona Public Service (APS) and Tucson Electric Power (TEP) have run some limited EV programs but “certainly […]

August 16, 2021

The ACC voted to hire Ascend Analytics in April, just before ending a three-year collaborative process to transition the state’s generation to 100% clean resources. But utilities have set their own decarbonization goals, and the new analysis can help regulators […]

April 15, 2021

Li-Cycle Corp. (“Li-Cycle” or “the Company”), an industry leader in lithium-ion battery resource recovery and the largest lithium-ion battery recycler in North America, today announced that the Company will build its third commercial lithium-ion battery recycling facility, to be located […]

July 22, 2020

Arizona’s renewable energy requirements were last set in 2006 at 15% by 2025, and since then utilities in the state have set goals that match, or in some cases exceed, staff’s new proposed pace. In June, Tucson Electric Power (TEP) […]

April 24, 2020

As consumers and businesses grapple with the impacts of COVID-19, which is already shifting daily load shapes and electricity demand, regulators across the country are responding. Interestingly, in a handful of states, regulators are linking recovery efforts from the impending […]

May 14, 2019

The commission’s December EV policy statement directed staff to develop an implementation plan, intended to provide guidelines on pilot programs, rate design, cost recovery and other issues. Approval of the implementation plan will effectively be a final vote on the […]

February 20, 2019

Waste Management of Arizona (WM) has opened its new compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling station located in Goodyear along Interstate-10. The new station now supplies fuel to an expanded fleet of cleaner-running WM trash collection trucks serving residents and businesses […]

August 13, 2018

Arizona’s politics over renewable energy have always been contentious. As the state considers adding new targets, this year is no different. There are two proposals to increase Arizona’s renewable portfolio standard. One, a ballot initiative, would add a 50 percent […]

July 17, 2018

Today, transactive energy is more of a concept than a reality, but Tobin’s new regulatory docket could combine with other state efforts and some nascent utility pilots to help take the technology into the mainstream. The concept refers to a […]

March 16, 2018

Arizona’s energy future took an unexpected turn this week. At a hearing Tuesday for the routine assessment of major utilities’ long-term resource plans, regulators rebuked the proposals and instituted a nine-month moratorium on new gas plants larger than 150 megawatts. […]

February 22, 2018

A 200-MW solar power plant is being planned at a 2,000-acre site near Warner Robins, Georgia, a project that at present would be the largest standalone solar facility in the U.S. Southeast. First Solar, a Tempe, Arizona-based global provider of […]

January 30, 2018

Arizona is setting out to prove clean energy leadership doesn’t exist solely in coastal states like California and New York. Andrew Tobin, a member of the Arizona Corporation Commission, proposed a clean energy overhaul Tuesday that would put the state […]

August 15, 2017

Arizona Public Service is installing a 2 MW, 8 MWh battery storage system instead of rebuilding about 20 miles of transmission and distribution poles and wires. It is the first time that APS, an investor-owned utility, has used energy storage […]

June 7, 2017

Tucson Electric Power, E.ON Climate and Renewables and Greensmith Energy dedicated the Iron Horse Battery Storage Energy Project in Arizona on June 1. The 10-megawatt/2.5 MWh energy storage system at the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park will provide […]

December 6, 2016

State regulator Robert Burns has rejected a settlement proposed by Arizona Public Service that would have ended his requests for political spending disclosures in return for the utility agreeing to greater transparency in the future. According to the Arizona Capitol […]