Arizona Corporation Commission

Arizona staff conditionally backs yearly Southwest gas rates.

Arizona Corporation Commission staff would let, let Southwest Gas adjust base rates annually between rate cases, with commission approval of each change and a wider earnings ban than the utility proposed.

Southwest Gas could soon change its Arizona base rates every year instead of waiting years between rate cases, and the Arizona Corporation Commission's own staff now supports the idea.

Staff backed it in testimony filed October thirteenth in docket G-zero-one-five-one-A-twenty-six-zero-zero-one-eight, though with more conditions attached than the utility asked for.

Commissioners have not ruled.

Increasing energy efficiency was 31%.

Extreme heat and growing infrastructure, including data centers and exploding residential areas, have combined to drive energy demand to an all-time high, according to the Arizona Corporation Commission.

Heat-related deaths in Maricopa County this summer were 60% higher than last summer, according to county data.

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This is something I do where I'm like, "Can you just tell me what the point of this office is, first of all, before you tell me your endorsement or who you think I should vote for? What is, what is the goal? And then what are my goals in, in...

what do I want as a voter to see?" So, uh, at a public service commission election confusingly called an- the Corporation Commission in Arizona, right? All of these things are called different names, and it's just important to know that, uh, a lot of the time they're not called the thing that you think they should be called.

So I think that's our first biggest educational barrier.

So, uh, I mean, I would say one of our goals is to make sure that for some of these offices, um, voters know what they are.

It's the first step.

The Corporation Commission sounds like it does something different.

It regulates your energy and electricity bills.

And, um, one of the, the goals that, that we have this year is, um, every voter, voter in Arizona should know that, um, when they're thinking about energy rates and electricity bills, the Arizona Corporation Commission is the entity that's largely responsible for that.

It's, it, it sound, you know, the, the name of the, of the agency is-

Arizona Corporation Commission.

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Wow, that was an amazing, uh, Native Edge.

Yeah, that was, um, I...

The whole everything in the Arizona Corporation Commission, we rely on our small businesses to be incorporated properly-

Yeah, yep

Matthew Casey, KJZZ News, Phoenix.

Well, when the Arizona Corporation Commission approved big water and sewer rate hikes in the Ropes and Ranch community in Eloy in March, residents cried foul.

They said commissioners should have dug deeper into the sale of their utilities, Picacho Water and Sewer, which were recently bought by a Dutch investment firm.

Here's resident Deborah Dorman.

Arizona commissioner stands firm on Markets Plus support.

Arizona Corporation Commission Chair Nick Myers is firing back on speculation that Arizona is wavering in its choice of SPP's Markets Plus rather than CAISO's Extended Day-Ahead Market.

ROE debated at NJ utility reform hearings.

New Jersey officials trying to create a model for determining how utilities should operate faced contentious pushback from stakeholders in a recent public hearing, particularly over how much return on equity utilities should earn.