Arizona Corporation Commission opens docket to track clean energy progress

On Tuesday, Lea Márquez Peterson, chairwoman of the Arizona Corporation Commission, opened a new docket to track Arizona electric utilities’ progress in transitioning to clean energy.

Márquez Peterson said she supports 100 percent clean energy by 2050 as an overarching goal for Arizona’s electric utilities. To do this, Peterson said she was developing the docket to track the progress of Arizona’s largest electric utilities toward their voluntary clean energy commitments.

The ACC said utilities, including Arizona Public Service Company (“APS”), Tucson Electric Power (“TEP”), and Salt River Project (“SRP”), have all committed to achieving voluntary clean energy objectives.

“Individual commissioners and other Arizona leaders continue to support the move to 100% clean energy,” Márquez Peterson wrote in her letter. “We realize that the Commission as a state agency is lacking a central location where members of the public can go to find and track our utilities’ progress toward achieving these goals. But, with the creation of this new docket, Arizonans will have the ability to watch the progress of our utilities over time as we work to achieve our clean energy goals together.”

The new docket, “Arizona Corporation Commission Docket for the Purpose of Tracking Arizona Investor-Owned Utilities’ Progress Toward Achieving 100 Percent Clean Energy in Arizona,” can be viewed by the public on ACC’s website.

“With greater demand for clean energy, we can help to attract economic growth and prosperity to our state for years to come,” Márquez Peterson wrote.