Opinion: Moving to renewable energy too early could be disastrous for Arizona. We'd choose an 'all of the above' approach on the Corporation Commission.
and not of the utility scale necessary to support renewable deployment of even 45%.
We will protect Arizonans by standing up against failed California-style policies that have destabilized their electric grid, driven up their utility costs and resulted in rolling blackouts. Arizona’s regulatory climate ranks at the bottom of the 50 states. Years of the commission issuing conflicting rules, reopening rate cases and taking 50% longer than other states to decide rate cases has driven utility bills higher for Arizonans.
Consistently the legal fees spent by any utility to file a rate case with the commission have exacerbated and added cost to the overall capital dollars spent on infrastructure. This means that our consumers are paying more than what it should cost for the utility to improve its systems because, under the law, these fees are recoverable.Additionally, a rate of return that the utilities are guaranteed equates on average to 8% to 10% on top of that.
Kevin and Nick will focus on improving the process to file a rate case so that our smaller utilities, especially the 300 smaller water companies, can do so without the need for a plethora of lawyers, accountants and consultants that result in higher costs to ratepayers. Arizona needs responsible, experienced leadership on the Corporation Commission to ensure we maintain a strong and reliable energy grid and affordable energy and water.
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