I am a member of  APS's Resource Planning Advisory Committee.  Here's a handy link to the presentations and minutes.

RPAC Meeting Presentations & Minutes

The SunZia project will be on next week's ACC Agenda.  Here is our letter in support of the project.  

Southwestern Power Group is a a founding member of the Arizona Competitive Power Alliance and long time member of the New Mexico Independent Power Producers Association.  We are proud to support their application at BLM.  Here is a copy of our letter.

Chairwoman Marquez-Peterson tries to bridge the information gap. 

Longroad has filed an interesting update as part of the Biennial Transmission Assessment.   

SunZia continues to make progress.  

APS has announced its intention to file a rate case in July of 2022.  Here's a link to the filing.  

The ACC voted 3-2 to REJECT SRP's request to rehear the case....this wasn't a rejection of the case, it was a rejection of SRP's request to even ARGUE for the project.  Rather extraordinary indeed. 

N O T I C E SPECIAL OPEN MEETING NOTICE OF THE ARIZONA CORPORATION COMMISSION

Monday, June 6, 2022 2:00 PM

Hearing Room One 1200 W. Washington St. Phoenix, AZ 85007

AGENDA

1. Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District – Line Siting (L-00000B[1]21-0393-00197) – In the Matter of the Application of Salt River Project Agricultural

Improvement and Power District, in Conformance with the Requirements of Arizona Revised Statutes, Section 40-360 et seq,, for a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility Authorizing the Expansion of the Coolidge Generating Station, All Within the City of Coolidge, Pinal County, Arizona. Commission Discussion, Consideration, and Possible Vote on Salt River

Project’s Application for Rehearing and Reconsideration Pursuant to A.R.S. §§ 40-253 and 40- 360.07. No public comment will be taken on this item. The Commission may vote to go into Executive Session for discussion and consultation with its attorneys in this matter pursuant to A.R.S. § 38- 431.03(A)(3) and (4), which will not be open to the public.

The most important lesson in Event Planning is that you can't compete with Comic-Con.  Our annual summer conference was originally scheduled for July 21st and 22nd in San Diego.  Those are the same dates as San Diego Comic-Con and there's not a hotel room for under $500 within 50 miles of downtown.  So we are pushing the conference back a week.  

We will meet at Coasterra on Harbor Island at 5:30 PM on Thursday July 28th for dinner.  

Then on Friday July 29th, we will meet at Con Edison Solutions' downtown offices.  (Check in with Security from 8:30 to 9:00)  the conference will be from 9:00 to 1:10 PM.  

Contact me if you are interested in joining us: [email protected]

In the previous post, I mentioned that we host Continuing Legal Education Lunch with prominent Arizona attorneys.  Each month, we also host a monthly lunch with a much broader group.  This month's Policy Networking Lunch will be on June 30th with Congressman David Schweikert.  Let me know if you would like to join us.