GOP lawmakers fast-tracking bill to block energy standards

摘要

The Arizona Legislature is fast-tracking a proposed law that would strip state utility regulators of their power torequire electric utilities to get more of their power from solar and other clean energy power sources.But Republican lawmakers who control the Senate and House are not proposing to enact any standards of theirown to replace those now being considered by the Arizona Corporation Commission.Instead, GOP lawmakers emboldened by a state Supreme Court decision that called the commission's powersinto question simply will bar any new requirements above the existing standards requiring utilities to get 15% oftheir power supply from renewable supplies by 2025. The commission has proposed requiring regulated utilitiesto get half their power from solar, wind and other renewable sources by 2035 and 100% from clean energy,including nuclear, by 2050.