By Robert Robb | The Republic | azcentral.com
(Editor’s note: Opinion pieces are published for discussions purposes only.)
The residential rooftop solar industry in Arizona isn’t making much of an attempt to justify the subsidy it gets in utility rate designs. Then again, there’s not much of an argument to be made.
Instead, the industry is conducting political attack campaigns against its perceived opponents, the incumbent utilities, disparaging their character and trying to damage their reputations.
There was some modicum of strategic sense to this when it came to Arizona Public Service, although it was puerilely executed. The decision was going to be made by the elected politicians on the Arizona Corporation Commission. If the rooftop solar industry could make APS politically toxic, the commission might protect its subsidy. Don’t think it had much of an effect, but in theory it might have.
