By Philip Haldiman | The Republic | azcentral.com
A clash between two groups over solar- energy rates in Arizona has flared up in Cave Creek.
Last month, Arizona Free Enterprise Club, a conservative advocacy group that believes solar customers earn too much credit for their excess power, targeted Vice Mayor Adam Trenk in a mailer for a resolution he sponsored opposing solar-rate increases in Cave Creek.
The Town Council unanimously passed the non-binding document in July.
Now, a group called TUSK, or Tell Utilities Solar Won’t be Killed, has responded with a mailer of its own.
The group supports net metering subsidies for solar users and says the Free Enterprise flier is spreading false rhetoric in Cave Creek.
The TUSK flier states, “If the monopoly and/or its allies insist on sending out more ridiculous rhetoric we’ll be pulling the curtain back even more on their chicanery.”
