Arizona has quickly becoming one the best states in the U.S. for solar power. Currently, Arizona ranks as the fourth highest in installed solar PV capacity among U.S. states.… Source: Discovering Solar Power in Arizona.
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Discovering Solar Power in Arizona
Arizona has quickly becoming one the best states in the U.S. for solar power. Currently, Arizona ranks as the fourth highest in installed solar PV capacity among U.S. states. In fact, Arizona solar energy made substantial strides in 2010 by installing over 54 megawatts of solar power, doubling its 2009 output of 21 megawatts, again […]
Solar Energy Rises in Southern Arizona
The City of Tucson last week dedicated its latest solar project: a one-megawatt array of more than 3,400 solar panels at the Central Avra Valley Storage and Recovery Project, about 20 miles west of Interstate 10. In partnership with Trico Electric Cooperative, Inc. and SunPower Corporation, the solar panels will help provide the electricity needed […]
SRP plan to buy credits criticized
Salt River Project proposes to get 20 percent of its energy from “sustainable” sources by 2020, but it could pay out-of-state power plants for electricity never sent to Arizona to meet part of that goal. That part of the plan does not sit well with alternative-energy advocates hoping to build up the Arizona economy with […]
Sempra Announces Arizona Solar Power Plant
Construction will begin in June of the first phase of what will eventually become a huge solar power plant in the Arizona desert, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Sempra Energy announced Thursday. The Mesquite Solar facility, located about 40 miles west of Phoenix, is expected to produce 700 megawatts of power when it is complete. […]
Arizona Appeals Court Upholds Renewable Energy Regulations
The Arizona Court of Appeals recently upheld a lower court decision rejecting a challenge by The Goldwater Institute over the Arizona Corporation Commission requirement that Arizona utilities source 15% of their electricity from alternative sources, such as solar power and wind power, by 2025. This was the fourth legal challenge by the Institute’s watchdog group, […]
Lots of Rooftop Solar Comes To Tucson
Arizona’s Renewable Energy Standard (RES), requires Arizona utilities to incrementally increase their use of renewable power each year until it reaches 15 percent of their energy by 2025. Under this policy, Tuscon Electric Power (TEP) needs to source 3% of their power from renewable sources for 2011. Their plan? To install solar panels on “underutilized rooftops” […]
First Solar to build Arizona manufacturing plant
Tempe, Ariz.-based First Solar Inc. plans to build a new plant in the neighboring Phoenix suburb of Mesa for manufacturing thin-film solar panels. Company officials said Thursday the plant will employ 600 and be built on a 135-acre property that previously was the site of a General Motors automobile proving ground. The solar panels, also […]
Arizona Diamondbacks Moving to Solar Power
The Arizona Diamondbacks are going solar. The team has elected to install solar panels at Chase Field in Phoenix as part of a shade structure on the stadium’s west side. which will shade about 17,000 square feet of the west entrance plaza. Construction began at the beginning of February and is a joint project of […]
Arizona Solar Power Doubles in 2010
Arizona solar made substantial strides in 2010 by installing over 54 megawatts of solar power, doubling its 2009 output of 21 megawatts, ranking it fourth in the U.S. According to a study by the Solar Energy Industries Association and GTM Research, the total amount of photovoltaic panels installed on roofs in the U.S. was approximately […]
