By Ryan Randazzo |Arizona Republic
Arizona utility regulators deadlocked over whether they should increase the state’s requirements for renewable energy Thursday, abruptly ending a meeting when it was clear they disagreed.
On the table was a requirement to use 50% renewables by 2030 or 2035, 100% carbon free energy by 2050, energy-efficiency requirements and a wholesale change in how utilities decide which power plants to build.
Clean-energy advocates who have participated in the hearings at the Arizona Corporation Commission for the past two years, and longer, were let down by the inaction.