1. State Releases Guidelines for Protecting Wildlife Around Renewable Plants
(News and Events/AIC News)

By admin - Grant Martin, Cronkite News Service/Az Capital Times  New guidelines from the Arizona Game and Fish Department may help developers planning wind farms and solar facilities like the Dry Lake ...

2. ACC Launches Arizona-Goes-Solar Website
(News and Events/ACC News)

Commission Launches Arizona Goes Solar Website PHOENIX—The Arizona Corporation Commission today launched Arizona Goes Solar, a website created to be a one-stop shop for homeowners and business owners ...

3. Renewable Energy’s “Ugly Sister”
(Blog/Blog)

In my last post (A Long and Windy Road to Our Renewable Energy Future) I talked about how renewable energy standards like Arizona's may be harder to achieve than we think.  That doesn't mean I think they're ...

4. A Long and Windy Road to Our Renewable Energy Future
(Blog/Blog)

... such a goal. In Arizona, regulators have been pushing forward the move toward renewable energy since 1996 when the Corporation Commission initiated the Environmental Portfolio Standard.  In 2006, the ...

5. Solar Power is Big Here Because Arizona is Sunny. Is That a Bad Thing?
(Blog/Blog)

I really love it when one of my blog posts generates a discussion - my aim here is, after all, to foster a dialogue about issues that are important to me, to the AIC, and to Arizonans.  So I've been happy ...

6. Phoenix-Area Exports: Falling Behind in the Race
(Blog/Blog)

In an earlier blog post, Follow-the-Leader: Why Isn't Arizona First in Solar Technology? I wrote about the importance of Arizona being a technology leader - and the opportunity we have in green energy, ...

7. What Exactly Does a “Smart” Electric Grid Look Like?
(Blog/Blog)

... is most efficiently generated (like solar in Arizona or wind in Wyoming) to where it is most sorely needed (like big cities on the East and West coasts). Have open and interoperable standards.  Right ...

8. Is Water Too Cheap?
(Blog/Blog)

... treatment and conveyance costs - the cost of the actual resource is, depending on where you're getting it from, relatively small. Herb Guenther, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources, ...

9. Looking for a Way to Grow Arizonan Jobs, Create Sustainable Businesses, and Boost Technology Innovation? Science Foundation Arizona Is It
(Blog/Blog)

I've been blogging a lot lately about the importance of innovation - and government support for it - in securing Arizona's competitive position in a new global economy.  (See WANTED: 100,000 Innovators ...

10. ACC Approves Power Agreement for Schools, Non-Profits
(News and Events/AIC News)

The Arizona Corporation Commission rejected a move to regulate solar companies selling power to schools and nonprofits.  (Phx Business Journal; Patrick O'Grady). Wednesday’s decision could spur growth ...

11. A “Crude” Awakening?
(Blog/Blog)

... that examines the cost effectiveness of energy efficiency measures - most of which are superior to solar costs. This would suggest it would be better for the Arizona economy if it could reduce production ...

12. Is Energy Technology Our Last Chance?
(Blog/Blog)

I know, I'm unfashionably late to the renewable energy party with this posting.  I've wanted to write about it for a couple of weeks now, since Governor Brewer hosted Arizona's Renewable Energy Future ...

13. Power in the 21st Century: Broadband and the Smart Grid
(Blog/Blog)

... a smart grid is important While power outages in Arizona are typically the result of once-a-season monsoons, the 2003 blackout that left 50 million people in the Northeastern U.S. and Canada without ...

14. Is Nuclear Our Energy Future?
(News and Events/AIC News)

by Ryan Randazzo-The Arizona Republic   Despite all the attention electric utilities in the U.S. have been giving renewable-power sources such as solar and wind, their faith is in nuclear power to ...

15. Bill to Classify Nuclear as Renewable Energy Killed
(News and Events/AIC News)

... in Goodyear. The bill was seen as a potential showdown with the Arizona Corporation Commission, which had set standards requiring state utilities get 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources ...

16. Nuclear Power is Back! (Maybe)
(Blog/Blog)

17. Cost an Obstacle to Building Nuclear Reactors
(News and Events/AIC News)

... he said. Arizona Public Service Co. operates Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, which produces more power than any other U.S. power plant. APS, Salt River Project and five other utilities own the ...

18. Follow-the-Leader: Why Isn’t Arizona First in Solar Technology?
(Blog/Blog)

... predicts will become Arizona's largest employer within 15 years, is a Chinese solar energy company. Now, I have nothing against foreign companies - global competition makes us all better off. I recognize ...

19. Arizona can lead in solar if Washington acts
(News and Events/AIC News)

The announcement by Chinese firm Suntech to locate its U.S. manufacturing site here in Arizona is the latest in a long series of important steps taken by business and political leaders to reap the many ...

20. Gov Brewer Supports More Nuclear Power
(Blog/Blog)

Cheers to Governor Jan Brewer for standing up in favor of more nuclear power for Arizona.  In a keynote address delivered this week at the 2010 Business Summit of the West (co-sponsored in part by AIC), ...

21. Conference Synopsis: Economic Tradeoffs of Carbon Control
(News and Events/AIC News)

... gathered yesterday at a conference presented by the Arizona Investment Council (AIC) and Arizona Businesses Advancing Sustainability (AzBAS) to answer the question: How much will carbon control cost and ...

22. State Regulators Grant APS Rate Increase
(News and Events/AIC News)

State Regulators Grant APS Rate Increase by Ken Alltucker - Dec. 16, 2009 09:24 PM To read this article in The Arizona Republic, click here. State utility regulators on Wednesday approved a rate hike ...

23. HERE COMES THE SUN!
(President's Messages/Message Archive)

Here Comes The Sun... The Beatles couldn’t have said it any better.  Arizona Public Service Company CEO, Don Brandt, was named the Solar Electric Power Association’s “Utility CEO of the Year.”  The ...