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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 ...
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 ...
In 2002 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that cable broadband services should be classified as information, rather than telecommunication, services.  That means cable broadband is less ...
... The bill to bring us up to a world-competitiveness level is astounding: $417-532 billion in Arizona alone.  But building the interstate railways, highways, electric grid, and Internet were expensive projects, ...
Corporation Commission Candidates Respond to AIC Survey Six candidates for the office of Arizona Corporation Commissioner have filed signature petitions with the Secretary of State, qualifying for the ...
7. 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, ...
It began way back in 2007, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 1) could not decline states' requests to issue emission standards for ...
It hasn't been a good month for fossil fuels in the U.S.  First, the massive (and still gushing) crude oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico had the federal government impose a 6-month moratorium on deep-water ...
Tucson Electric Power Co. and other coal-burning Arizona utilities are opposing proposed federal rules that would designate coal ash as a hazardous waste, calling them costly and unnecessary. Spurred ...
11. Candidates BIOs 2010 ACC Election
(News and Events/ACC News)
... of representing Arizonans as a conservative Republican. She first served in the Arizona House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995. In 1993, Republican House members elected Brenda to the position of Majority ...
I seem to have hit upon an admittedly unusual case of prescience in my recent blog posts.  Just after I wrote last Friday's post on energy innovation, WANTED: 100,000 Innovators in 100,000 Garages, GE ...
A few weeks ago the Senate Budget Committee passed its fiscal 2011 budget resolution.  I'll leave it to the others to hash out the overarching economic effects of tax increases.  Instead I'd like to opine ...
... 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 ...
... the Arizona Corporation Commission."  It particularly struck me because about a year and a half ago the AIC released a report titled, "Streamlining Administrative and Ratemaking Processes of the Arizona ...
Corporation Commission Candidates Respond to AIC Survey Six candidates for the office of Arizona Corporation Commissioner have filed signature petitions with the Secretary of State, qualifying for the ...
... say here that the additional ~$1 billion it will generate each year over the next three will allow the state to preserve what's left of funding for Arizona's education system (K-12 and universities) - ...
I'm really happy that last Tuesday's blog, on the state's horribly misguided cuts to the Arizona Department of Water Resources, generated a robust (and still ongoing) discussion.  It got me thinking: The ...
... prospects. Even the best leadership in the world probably wouldn't have prevented a fiscal deficit, spurred by the economic recession.  It wouldn't have erased the "Arizona budget cuts hurting [fill ...
In Tuesday's post ("‘Waste'water No More, Arizona Sees the Value in Effluent") I started to talk about the deal that APS and SRP just made with Phoenix, Mesa, Glendale, Scottsdale and Tempe to purchase ...
... also a groundwater recharge facility, where reclaimed wastewater percolates back into the aquifer. The Water Ranch is just one example of Arizona's forward thinking on wastewater reclamation, reuse, ...
... and Mesa, which supply the treated effluent, and Arizona Public Service Co. and Salt River Project updates terms and costs in an existing agreement, while giving the cities a bigger chunk of both revenue ...
... lack a nationwide public safety mobile broadband communications network, even though such a network could improve emergency response and homeland security." A huge Arizona infrastructure study commissioned ...
... that sometimes run dry.  If they're not navigable, they may not be protected under the Clean Water Act. Here's why you should care. At least 79% of Arizona's waterways are not considered navigable.  ...
25. Going Nuclear?
(News and Events/AIC News)
by Jeremy Duda / Az Capitol Times February 15th, 2010 For Arizona politicians, the easy part of plunging back into the nuclear-energy business is well under way - the talking part. Now come the details, ...
... by a snowy winter with the prospect of filled reservoirs in the spring has made us complacent.  Yet, Arizona remains in the grip of long-term drought, which we cannot ignore.  Unless we have enough water ...
... co-sponsored by the Arizona Investment Council and Arizona Businesses Advancing Sustainability. The cost of reducing GHG emissions There is no question that reducing greenhouse gas emissions, by cap ...
... 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 ...
You bet it is. A recent Gallup Poll conducted for the Center for the Future of Arizona identified statewide water management as the most important infrastructure issue facing Arizona. In response to ...
30. Economic Tradeoffs of Carbon Control
(News and Events/AIC Events)
ARIZONA INVESTMENT COUNCIL AND ARIZONA BUSINESSES ADVANCING SUSTAINABILITY PRESENT: BLACK CANYON CONFERENCE CENTER PHOENIX • ARIZONA 9440 N 25th Avenue ...
Local economies in northern Arizona and New Mexico could lose big-time if air quality rules under consideration by the EPA force the premature closure of two major power plants and associated mines. The ...
32. Water Conference Photos 2009
(News and Events/Galleries)
Photos from "Meeting Arizona's Water Needs Today and Tomorrow" (Aug. 28, 2009 in Tucson): Water_Conf_Photos_2009  ...
33. Our Water Supply Is Drying Up
(News and Events/AIC News)
By Robert Glennon SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON POST As published in the Arizona Daily Star In the United States, we constantly fret about running out of oil. But we should be paying more attention ...
34. Meeting Arizona's Water Needs Today & Tomorrow
(News and Events/Event Archive)
Meeting Arizona's Water Needs Today & Tomorrow Presentations & Photos At the end of the day, Friday-August 28th, almost 250 attendees to the AIC Conference on "Meeting Arizona's Water Needs ...
35. Is the Era of Cheap Water in Arizona Over?
(President's Messages/Message Archive)
Is the Era of Cheap Water in Arizona Over? For Arizona and the desert Southwest, the most critical factor limiting growth and economic prosperity is access to sufficient  water supplies and the capacity ...
  With the State of Arizona facing the prospect of massive budget deficits over the next two fiscal years, lawmakers and stakeholders are now engaged in an historic effort to identify solutions ...
37. Executive Summary of Study
(News and Events/AIC News)
To Download an Executive Summary of: "INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS AND FUNDING ALTERNATIVES FOR ARIZONA: 2008-2032 WATER, ENERGY, COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORTATION" published May 2008 PLEASE CLICK ON THIS ...
38. Three New Commissioners and a New Chairman
(President's Messages/Message Archive)
... to make Arizona the solar energy capital of the country.  She also indicated her desire to press for energy savings through efficiency and conservation and to promote consolidation and conservation among ...
The Arizona Corporation Commission is Critical to Arizona’s Future In a sense, America is a nation of political junkies. There is nothing like a presidential election to sharpen our awareness  that ...
40. Q&A Session With Our President
(President's Messages/Message Archive)
... was jumping on board from day one to participate in the successful transition of the Arizona Utility Investors Association (AUIA) to the Arizona Investment Council. Board chairman Wayne Anderson, together ...
41. An Exciting Time For AUIA
(President's Messages/Message Archive)
This is an exciting time for AUIA. We have a new name, a new vision and mission, a new website, and boundless enthusiasm to advocate for investors and investment in Arizona.   Under our new banner ...
42. Key Contacts
(Uncategorised Content)
Utility Companies Arizona-American Water Arizona Public Service Company Arizona Water Company Chapparal City Water Co. (a subsidiary of American States Water Co.) El Paso Natural Gas Global ...
43. Links
(Uncategorised Content)
Utility Companies Arizona-American Water Arizona Public Service Company Pinnacle West Capital Corporation (PNW) Qwest (Q) Salt River Project (SRP) Southwest Gas Corporation (SWX) Sunrise ...
44. Board of Directors
(Uncategorised Content)
... Arizona Chamber of Commerce; and Executive Emeritus, Thunderbird-The American Graduate School for International Management. He is a charter member of the Arizona Investment Council Board of Directors, ...
45. History and Mission
(Uncategorised Content)
... the Arizona Utility Investors Association (AUIA) was renamed the Arizona Investment Council (AIC) in April 2007 and given an expanded vision and mission. AIC’s new, expanded mission extends to the support ...
46. Water Conference
(Calendar event/General)
Meeting Arizona's Water Needs Today and Tomorrow Conference Description (PDF) Final Agenda (PDF) Registration Form and Lodging Info (PDF)  ...

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