By Ryan Randazzo | The Republic | azcentral.com
Arizona Public Service Co. is seeing the number of people installing solar in its service territory slow down, but the company remains ahead of the state requirement for the amount of renewable energy on its system.
The company is negotiating with regulators this week on how to comply with the state requirement that 15 percent of its electricity comes from renewable sources by 2025. Thirty percent of that renewable power must come from rooftop solar or other “distributed” power sources.
The requirements escalate each year. For 2014, APS is required to get 4.5percent of its electricity from renewable sources, 1.4 percent of which must come from rooftop solar or other distributed sources.
APS has enough customers using solar today to meet the requirement through 2016 at least, with more customers installing solar each day.
