By Ryan Randazzo, The Republic | azcentral.com
Arizona utility regulators on Tuesday reconsidered whether electric companies need to get a portion of their electricity from “distributed” renewable energy such as rooftop solar power.
Arizona requires utilities get increasing amounts of their power from renewable sources until 2025, when they are required to get 15 percent from those sources. Thirty percent of that renewable energy, or 4.5 percent of the total energy load, must come from distributed sources, rather than large, centralized power plants.
The distributed-generation requirement, or DG carve-out, has helped create a booming rooftop solar industry in the state since the rules passed in 2006. The reconsideration has those industry officials alarmed.
