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Guest Opinion
As state elected officials, community leaders, and most importantly – parents, we are concerned about the future of our children, and believe it’s time for our utilities to start acting with some urgency.
With our desert climate and growing population, Arizona is at the forefront of critical energy issues. Whether it’s meeting increased energy demands as average temperatures rise each year, our long-term drought, increased wildfire season, or the high energy bill burden families and those on fixed incomes face, the crux of the matter is that rapid clean energy transition action is required.
Salt River Project (SRP), a public utility, brands itself as a “leader in clean energy.” Last July, SRP announced it had achieved “Climate Registered Platinum Status” and issued a congratulatory news release. The achievement was bestowed upon SRP by The Climate Registry, a small nonprofit that does consulting work and Greenhouse Gas reporting. A little digging reveals that both SRP and Arizona Public Service (APS) are both founding members of The Climate Registry and the achievement was merely for reporting emissions, not lowering them, making the designation ring somewhat hollow, especially when it has the weakest carbon goals among Arizona’s three largest electric utilities.
SRP’s own website shows that out of its total energy mix, only about 10%, or roughly 3,000 out of 32,711 total gigawatt hours of its energy comes from
