By Ryan Randazzo | The Republic | azcentral.com
Salt River Project’s elected officials will vote on a controversial solar rate hike Thursday, and the three-month proceeding has been a crash course in the utility’s politics for many of those affected.
Most customers have little reason to engage the board of directors at the non-profit, public utility that is a political subdivision of the state. But that changed in early December for 15,000 SRP customers who have solar, and thousands more who want it, when they learned of the rate plan.
Since then many have learned it is difficult to determine who represents them on the publicly elected board of directors. Hundreds of thousands of SRP customers, in fact, have no representative because they live in areas excluded from voting rights, or because they don’t own their property.
