Arizona Public Service

Arizona Public Service Company is the largest electric utility in Arizona and the subsidiary of publicly-traded S&P 500 member Pinnacle West Capital Corporation. The utility provides power for nearly 1.2 million customers in 11 of the state’s 15 counties. In 2019, it acknowledged spending millions of dollars to elect Corporation Commission members as part of a dark-money scandal in 2014.

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Kevin Thompson: “For full transparency, I have a client that’s a data center”

Kevin Thompson, a commissioner on the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC), disclosed that he has a data center client during a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners in New Mexico last week. Thompson, who is seeking re-election to the ACC later this year, also operates a consulting business,...

Utilities fund Republican campaigns in pivotal Arizona legislature races

Arizona Public Service, Salt River Project, and Southwest Gas have contributed mainly to Republican candidates in several key state legislature races that could decide which party controls the legislative branch, according to state campaign finance records. The utilities have deployed the campaign funds from their corporate profits and Political Action Committees (PACs) as Republicans in...

As Customers Struggled, Utility CEOs’ Pay Spiked Last Year

While many Americans saw their energy bills go up substantially in the past year, investor-owned electric and gas utilities and the country’s largest publicly owned utility paid their CEOs over $647 million in 2023, an increase of 9 percent over 2022, an analysis by the Energy and Policy Institute has found. The CEOs for the...

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