Register today for the Greentech Media Solar Summit to hear from our Keynote speaker: Tom Doyle, Executive Vice President of NRG, President of NRG Solar, and Regional President, West, NRG.

APS has had several staffing changes in the leadership of its renewable programs in recent months, and we wanted to take the opportunity to make introductions.

Greg Bernosky has been named Manager, Renewable Energy, and has assumed overall responsibility for our renewable energy program.

SRP will be hosting a Solar Industry Stakeholder meeting to provide the new incentive levels and program requirements for SRP's Commercial and Residential Solar Programs. This meeting will be held at the Tempe Mission Palms Hotel in Tempe, AZ on Thursday, April 5, 2012 from 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM. The Tempe Mission Palms Hotel is located at 60 E. Fifth Street in Tempe, Arizona.

State 3rd Nationally in Solar Production, Expected to Climb Rankings in 2012

Please contact your members in the Houe of Representatives and ask them to oppose HB2789 corporation commission; legislative authority, which is moving through the House    H2789: corporation commission rules; legislative approval, would require the Corporation Commission to “promptly submit to the legislature for review all rules or amendments to existing rules adopted after December 31, 2012 concerning public service corporations that are policy decisions, including rules mandating the use of specific sources of energy or imposing or increasing energy efficiency standards or renewable energy standards.”

Spanish Solar Firm to Put US Base in Arizona
[Associated Press, Aug. 11] Surprise, AZ - A Spanish manufacturer of glass for commercial solar plants announced Wednesday that it will build a $50 million U.S. headquarters in the Phoenix suburb of Surprise. Rioglass Solar said the 130,000-square-foot facility will employ more than 100 workers.

An additional 130,000 square feet of manufacturing space is on the drawing board. The company makes curved glass sheets used in solar plant parabolic concentrators. It is a subsidiary of Rioglass Solar Holdings. The city is waiving more than $1 million in fees and infrastructure improvement costs. Rioglass Solar also received $10.6 million in federal tax credits to locate its mirror manufacturing facility in Surprise.

Solar Power Plants Find Homes in Arizona
[Environmental Leader, Aug. 11] Arizona is about to become home to two new solar power plants. The University of Arizona will host a 1.6-megawatt (MW) system, while the Luke Air Force Base (AFB) will house a 15-MW plant, touted as the largest solar installation on U.S. government property.

SOLON inked a deal with Tucson Electric Power Company (TEP) that will bring the 1.6-MW turnkey power plant to the University of Arizona’s UATech-Park’s SolarZone, a 200-acre solar integration center. The University of Arizona also has a $32-million concentrated solar plant project underway at the SolarZone to be built by Bell Independent Power. The new 1.6-MW solar plant will consist of SOLON’s Velocity MW Solar System and 5,808 locally-manufactured, high-efficiency solar modules. The plant is expected to provide a more cost effective way for TEP to integrate solar power into its renewable energy portfolio.