Good news for Arizona residents who are customers of Salt River Project (SRP): the Arizona utility recently relaunched its popular solar rebate program after a months-long hiatus during which an interim rebate was available. As of May 1, SRP customers who install a residential solar photovoltaic (PV) energy system will be eligible to receive a [...]

As one of Arizona’s main electricity utilities, Salt River Project (SRP) has done its part to promote the use of solar power — mainly by providing solar rebate to customers who install solar panels on their home or business. (For more info on SRP’s solar incentive programs, see here and here.) As it turns out, [...]

Since 2004, few utility solar incentive programs have been as successful as the Salt River Project’s (SRP) EarthWise solar rebate.

Here we go again… Yet another solar energy rebate program will be put on hold due to high demand. The latest victim is the EarthWise solar rebate program from Salt River Project (SRP), an Arizona utility. Phoenix Business Journal on Monday reported that SRP will not issue any new rebates for commercial or residential solar [...]

Good news for Arizona homeowners: you will soon have (yet another) online source for solar-related information. The Phoenix Business Journal yesterday reported that the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) will on Wednesday launch a new solar energy information website. Dubbed Arizona Goes Solar, the site will “provide a one-stop source of information on what residents and [...]

SRP has launched a utility rebate program to stimulate consumer purchase of qualifying home efficient technologies and appliances, including clothes and dish washers, duct repairs and Heat, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system check-ups.

A bill that could have seriously damaged Arizona’s solar industry has been pulled from the legislature, says House Spokesman Paul Boyer. Rep. Debbie Lesko (R) is going to withdraw the bill that would have hit solar with a double whammy: first, by removing the Corporation Commission’s ability to set renewable portfolio standards for state electric [...]

For all you Phoenix-area customers of SRP, remember that the utility’s EarthWise Solar Energy Program’s excellent solar rebate is due to scale back at the end of April 2010. Right now, residential ratepayers can save up to $13,500 on the cost of a home solar installation. Also, the program offers strong incentives for commercial solar installations [...]

Customers of Arizona utility SRP were warned in December that the utility was planning to increase electric rates by 4.9 percent late this spring. This is a scaling back of SRP’s original plan to hike rates by 8.8 percent, a plan derailed by the economy, and should only add about $6 to an average electric [...]

The EarthWise Solar Energy rebate program, sponsored by SRP in Arizona, will soon reduce the amount of money available to homeowners and businesses who install solar photovoltaic (PV) panels or a solar water heating (solar thermal) system. According to SRP’s Web site, “[e]ffective June 1, 2009, the EarthWise Solar Energy program will be changing. All [...]