Renewable Energy for Arizona

05/29/2025

🌞💡🗞️ Solar and storage project approved near Yuma County.⚡

Elisabeth Solar Project: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has approved this “large-scale solar and battery storage facility” to be built on 1,411 acres of public land close to Dateland in Yuma County.

Power capacity: “The project.. is designed to generate up to 270 megawatts of electricity while storing 300 megawatts — enough clean power for tens of thousands of homes in both Arizona and California.”

The hookup: “The energy will be distributed through the regional grid via the Hoodoo Wash switchyard, with connections to Arizona Public Service and California utilities.”

Ray Castro, BLM Yuma field manager: "This project fits into a broader effort to build a reliable, homegrown energy supply while working with communities, Tribes, and other partners across the region.”

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04/22/2022

Happy Earth Day from 's Renewable Energy Team 🌱💡

RLG Co-Founder Court Rich says, “Our renewable energy and regulatory department works every day to help our amazing clients create a cleaner world by fighting for policies that promote more clean renewable energy, grow the battery storage industry, and make owning and charging electric vehicles easier for everyone.”

09/23/2021

California is sued over its rule on installers. New rule: “Require workers who install solar panels and batteries to be certified electricians.” The industry says it's it "would affect hundreds of solar companies in the state and 35K workers.”

By Ivan Penn | New York Times Fearing that growth in California’s solar power sector could grind to a halt, the association representing the industry has sued the state over a new requirement that installers be “certified electricians.” In the lawsuit, which was filed on Friday, the California...

08/11/2021

Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder and renewable energy department director, tapped to join Phoenix ad-hoc committee. https://bit.ly/3yIpeYT

By Melissa Rosequist | Scottsdale Independent Prominent Scottsdale attorney Court Rich has been selected to join city of Phoenix’s electric vehicle ad-hoc committee. The committee’s goal is to evaluate and develop recommendations to Phoenix City Council that will create conditions necessary to t...

07/15/2021

Mayor Gallego to meet with on Wednesday to discuss plan. https://bit.ly/2UMsmDY

By Paula Pineda | Arizona Republic (Photo via City of Phoenix) Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego will meet with President Joe Biden at the White House on Wednesday to build support for a federal infrastructure plan that would funnel billions into road repairs, water infrastructure improvements and more sus...

07/01/2021

production sites set to open at outside . The biogas sites at Butterfield Dairy in and Milky Way Dairy in . Together these sites will produce an excess of 675,000 MMBtu of each year.

By Andy Blye | Phoenix Business Journal Arizona will soon be home to several new biogas production facilities, a renewable energy source that aims to replace natural gas. Avolta, a Orem, Utah-based development company focused on renewable energy, is working with Phoenix-based developer Atlas Global....

05/22/2021

Modified clean rules back on the agenda. Arizona Daily Star: is at a crossroads and has an opportunity to lead the nation in a clean energy proposal that differs from the . https://cutt.ly/Ob4b4I8

Lea Márquez Peterson By Lea Márquez Peterson | Special to the Arizona Daily Star The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer (Editor’s note: After press time Lea Márquez Peterson let us know activity  Thursday has “changed the ACC’s next action on energy rules.” The updated ...

05/14/2021

Hance Park firehouse could be converted into eatery. We've got some suggestions: Firehouse Subs? Blaze Pizza? The Flame Broiler? -Article via https://bit.ly/3hpteaL

By Lynn Trimble | Phoenix New Times Phoenix could put out a call for a new dining concept at Margaret T. Hance Park in the coming months, seeking to transform a former firehouse into a culinary space reflecting the city’s current food scene. Whether that happens will depend in part on feedback rec...

05/14/2021

updates on plant. “This week, the company announced it had completed all the floor slabs, steel and underground utilities components for the site.” -Pinal Central https://bit.ly/3hpQCVU

By Aaron Dorman | Pinal Central (Photo via Nikola Motor Company) COOLIDGE — Nikola Motor Company is nearing completion of its manufacturing plant in the south of Coolidge. This week, the company announced it had completed all the floor slabs, steel and underground utilities components for the site...

05/13/2021

New natural gas project in will turn dairy manure into fuel. “Can dairy cows ?” With yesterday’s ground-breaking, the “joint project between Brightmark and the Caballero Dairy Farm in Eloy” started the process to find out. https://bit.ly/3w5HFoP

By Aaron Dorman | Pinal Central ELOY — Can dairy cows go green? Agriculture, and particularly large-scale livestock operations, have come under scrutiny for their environmental footprint, in particular cattle’s more odiferous byproducts. But new innovations could help turn animal waste into part...

05/06/2021

Court Rich, Rose Law Group co-founder and department director, shares thoughts on SRP’s big plans to increase . https://bit.ly/2QQRxUx

The 45-megawatt Sandstone Solar Facility in Florence serves SRP and came online in 2015./Provided by SRP. By Ryan Randazzo | Arizona Republic Salt River Project, Arizona’s second-largest electric company, plans to double the amount of solar energy it gets from large power plants over the next four...

05/05/2021

ACC Chair Lea Márquez Peterson reflects on first 100 days. She talks water, solar, hydrogen, rates, and much more. Check it out! https://bit.ly/3uqJoo7

By Real Estate Daily News (Photo courtesy of Chairwoman Lea Márquez) PHOENIX, ARIZONA – Arizona Corporation Commission Chairwoman Lea Márquez Peterson reflected on her first 100 days in office as both a newly-elected statewide official and as the Chairperson of an agency which regulates everythi...