On Thursday, the Arizona Corporation Commission, in a 5-0 vote, directed staff to file a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with the Secretary of State’s Office to repeal the Renewable Energy Mandates (A.A.C. Title 14, Chapter 2, Article 18).
According to the Commission, the Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff Rules (REST Rules) were adopted by the Commission in 2006, requiring retail electric utilities to obtain a portion of the utility’s annual retail kilowatt-hour (“kWh”) sales from renewable energy resources including distributed renewable energy resources (i.e., rooftop solar). More specifically, the mandates require utilities after 2024 to obtain 15 percent of retail electric sales from renewable energy resources, with 30 percent of the 15 percent coming from distributed renewable energy resources (i.e., rooftop solar).
The Commission will hold three oral proceedings to receive public comment on the repeal of the REST Rules on November 10 in Tucson, November 12 telephonically, and November 13 in Phoenix. Interested persons may file written comments with the Commission’s Docket Control (RE-00000A-24-0026) by November 14, 2025, and may provide oral comments at the proceedings held on November 10, 12, and 13, 2025.
Great news.
Maybe they should look at rolling back all the rate increases they blindly gave APS that is hurting needy families in Arizona. They violated their oath with the rubber stamp increases they allowed APS to steal more of our money. Completely wiping out any advantage solar users had. While we struggle to get out from under 4 years of horrible policy and the costs associated with them, the ACC penalized Arizonans with massive energy costs.
What took so long?
All I see where there are green energy mandates is rolling blackouts.
maybe the green energy scam will disappear
Excellent news. It’s hard to believe “greedy” energy companies won’t go with the most efficient least-cost power production option; if that’s ‘green’ or carbon-based, whatever. Cheaper production means – assuming gov’t doesn’t cap production or competition – cheaper service, which means maw-maw* gets to stack her pantry AND keep her A/C.
*61,672 died in Europe, during 2022, from heat-related illness, according to Nature (vs. 18,824 gun homicides and accidents in the U.S. the same year – maybe the Europeans should ban inconvenient weather?).
This is indeed great news. Everywhere in the world where wind and solar are added to the electrical grid, electricity becomes less reliable and more expensive. Mandating “renewable” energy is stupid and reckless. Reality and efficiency should be the guiding principles.
Good job ACC! Let those utility bills continue to rise. Our utilities bills will significantly increase because of this. We’ll all pay 30% more by 2030.
This is great news for Arizonans. Not so good for the eco terrorist liberals who want to shut down all prosperity and growth. Follow the science, the only thing that matters is the efficiency of energy conversion. Having mandates for virtue signaling only makes everyone poorer.