Results for: arizona public service

Utilities Fiddle While Arizona Burns

As the temperature climbs, Arizona's utilities keep investing in fossil fuels that exacerbate climate change and present cost risks to customers.

/ July 28, 2017

Democratic women’s group hosts event sponsored by APS

Arizona Public Service’s efforts to extend its influence over the state’s politicians is reaching into even progressive circles of the state’s politics, despite the fact that the monopoly utility is...

/ May 22, 2018

Strings Attached: How utilities use charitable giving to influence politics and increase investor profits

[…] 2017, EPI estimates that the 10 utilities that we assessed – Ameren, American Electric Power, Arizona Public Service, Dominion Energy, DTE Energy, Duke Energy, Entergy, FirstEnergy, NextEra Energy, and...

/ December 10, 2019

Latest campaign reports show Arizona utilities funding GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake

The political action committees for Southwest Gas and Pinnacle West, Arizona Public Service’s parent company, have maxed out their contribution limits to Kari Lake, Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, according to...

/ October 31, 2022

Follow the money: Pinnacle West-funded groups undermining renewable energy efforts in Arizona

According to Arizona campaign finance quarterly reports that were filed last month, Arizona Public Service’s parent company, Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, contributed $1.18 million to Arizonans for Affordable Electricity, a political action...

/ May 2, 2018
Cholla coal plant

Arizona Public Service announces 100% clean energy goal, saying it will “eliminate all fossil fuels”

[…] of renewable energy over the next decade, ultimately aiming for 100% clean energy by 2050. Arizona Public Service Company’s new clean energy goal “includes a nearer-term 2030 target of...

/ January 22, 2020

University of Wisconsin Public Utility Institute

[…] Southern Company), and Mary Lowry (Pacific Economics Group, which has several utility companies as clients: Arizona Public Service, Duke Energy, and Xcel Energy.) Public records reveal that EEI suggested...

/ January 21, 2016

Arizona Public Service Company Rate Request: Billions for Fossil Fuels, Nickels and Dimes for Solar

In early summer 2016, Arizona Public Service Company (APS), Arizona’s largest investor-owned utility, filed an application with the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) for a rate increase of $3.6 billion over...

/ September 21, 2016

Pinnacle West Corporation, Parent Company of Arizona Public Service, Contributes Another $3.5 Million to Arizonans for Affordable Electricity

[…] to the campaign from July 1 to August 11. Pinnacle West is the parent company of Arizona Public Service, the state’s largest monopoly electric utility. A total of $11,048,300 has...

/ August 21, 2018

Final Campaign Finance Reports Filed Before Election Shows APS Spending $30 Million To Defeat Prop 127

Millions More To Politicians While Arizona Rep. Grijalva Tells APS "No Thanks"

/ October 31, 2018