Rep. Carl Seel (R-6) is also taking aim at the Arizona Corporation Commission’s renewable energy standard requirement that 15 percent of the state’s energy come from renewable resources by 2025, reports the Yellow Sheet.
Although the Legislature already fought that battle and lost in the trial and appeals courts, Seel says he hopes to create a new legal question and get the issue up to the state Supreme Court, which previously declined to hear the matter.
Seel said the courts “almost affirmed” the commission’s authority over this issue. “But I still think that the supreme policy body in regards to those types of things is the Legislature. So I’m trying to see if I can craft up legislation that will draw out that question,” he told the Yellow Sheet Report. In fact, the lower courts ruled that the Constitution gives the Commission exclusive rate-making authority.
