By Jim Arwood, communications director for the Arizona Solar Center | Green Valley News and Sun
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Eleven years ago I wrote a guest editorial for the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff in which I put forward a question that was quite popular at the time: “Why isn’t there more solar in Arizona?”
It was in the aftermath of the California energy crisis. New incentive programs adopted by Arizona utilities were just starting to kick in, and the popularity of solar energy was beginning to emerge from a decade of stagnation; but still, Arizona’s most abundant natural resource had barely been tapped.
In 2002, the solar industry in Arizona was at the beginning of a boom-cycle that continues to this day.
What we were seeing in the way of solar installations back then was just the first flicker of what was possible. “The technology is on track to become a permanent part of Arizona’s landscape,” I wrote on Oct. 2, 2002.
That comment may be just as appropriate today in 2013 as it was more than a decade ago.
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