Arizona utilities not the only ones getting high interest in incentives

Arizona’s major utilities, Arizona Public Service and  Salt River Project, have been running out of incentives for solar like it’s a popular toy on Black Friday. There are lots of stories about early-adopting states like New Jersey having similar problems with their programs. Today, however, I heard what Florida Power and Light did. The utility is […]

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Arizona solar markets potentially losing focus on residential and commercial solar projects

advocates are becoming increasingly concerned that commercial solar funding in Arizona will be cut or severely reduced. Specifically, Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is focused on bringing in large utility scale projects while ignoring smaller commercial projects in the local area. The has set an aggressive goal of generating 15% of the state’s electricity from renewable […]

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Renewable Energy Projects Under Pressure from Feds and Environmental Groups

At the close of 2010, the Obama administration announced an ambitious plan to preserve massive amounts of land, particularly in the West. Pursuant to a regulatory change instigated by the administration, the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been instructed to survey its vast holdings – some 250 million acres – and designate […]

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