Arizona Daily Sun
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Will rooftop solar be the kind of disruptive force for electric utilities that wireless phones have been for the telecommunications industry?
And if so, what is the role of government in at least promoting it, if not subsidizing it?
That question and others have hovered over Arizona utility regulators for the past year, and this week it surfaced in a deliberate — and deliberative — way at the Hot Topics Cafe.
The last time we visited the topic in this space, the Arizona Corporation Commission was debating how much extra to allow Arizona Public Service to charge new rooftop solar customers for their share of costs to maintain the electric grid.
