SRP’s Shade Tree Program is set to return in 2025. Any SRP customers who want to participate can get two free shade trees — if they complete an online workshop.
After completing the workshop, customers can choose two small saplings at a pickup event in March and April.
Tree options include Palo Verdes, Thornless Mesquites and Desert Willows.
Residents who participated already can’t get more trees next year. The program is a partnership between SRP and Trees Matter, which started in 2012.
It is meant to cool homes, improve air quality and reduce energy costs.
More utilities news
-
A new market, known as Markets+, offers western utilities an alternative to California governance. But, California has since agreed to give up oversight of the west's largest energy trading market. So, will Arizona utilities stay or go? -
APS says it signed a confidential agreement in September with Navajo Transitional Energy Company that could allow it to keep operating the Four Corners Power Plant until 2038. -
Officials say the new plan is like digging in the "couch cushions" for promises to save Colorado River water, but compensation from the Arizona Water Banking Authority could help reach a larger goal. -
Attorney General Kris Mayes sued to force a rehearing of the data center's energy service contract with Tucson Electric Power, arguing the Arizona Corporation Commission ignored due process and cost-shifting risks to ratepayers. Mayes says the city of Tucson's requests to comment or intervene were ignored by the commission. -
Residents and environmental advocacy groups advocated to quarter the city's water use limit that triggers conversation requirements. Members of the council worried that could raise water bills on essential industries and hurt efforts to bring in jobs.
