Utilities

The Arizona Senate passed a bill Thursday that would require the state’s major utilities to file a report every six months detailing new extra high load users, like data centers.

SRP, APS and over four dozen other utilities throughout the country will deploy crews to install electrical wire, dig holes, set power poles and bring power to some of the nearly 10,000 homes without it.

The town of Cave Creek in Arizona is on the front lines of the Colorado River crisis. It will get help from Phoenix before working on long-term fixes.

Wind and solar power are rapidly expanding across the Mountain West, with some states now generating a significant share of their electricity from renewable sources, according to a new report from Climate Central, a nonpartisan research group.

Arizona’s largest electric utility will no longer disconnect customers’ power when temperatures exceed 95 degrees, following a settlement with the Attorney General’s Office.

Millions rely on this help to pay their bills during extreme cold and heat surges

Len Necefer’s piece starts with the following sentence: “The storm that killed Phoenix arrived on the evening of July 14, 2027, dragging a wall of dust 3,000 feet high.”

Environmental groups worry fracking in Mexico would have serious environmental consequences, as the president says her country will work toward “sustainable” methods.

Turning Point USA’s political arm spent months pouring money and resources into a little-known utility election in Arizona, an effort that contributed to massive increase in voter turnout but ultimately failed to stave off a challenge from a slate of clean-energy candidates.

The election for the board of the Salt River Project is normally very quiet. It's an off-cycle election in the middle of April with an archaic voting model that allows only some property owners to even vote.