Arizona Public Service Company (APS) customers will soon power their homes and businesses with more clean energy. Earlier this year, APS announced a commitment to deliver 100% clean, carbon-free electricity to customers by 2050. By the end of 2021, APS will harness the power of Leeward Renewable Energy’s advanced GE wind turbine technology to help…
APS to request proposals for new wind & solar resources
Arizona Public Service Company (APS) announced plans to add new wind and solar resources to its portfolio for a total of 2,500 MW by 2021 – or enough to power more than half a million Arizona homes. The company plans to issue two new requests for proposal (RFPs) by September 15, 2019. One RFP will…
APS brings battery storage, one of the country’s largest, to rural Arizona
The two 4-megawatt-hour (MWh) Advancion batteries are made by AES Energy Storage, and are similar to those pictured, which are currently in use by APS.
Energy storage crucial to increasing renewable electricity on the grid
U.S. policymakers must focus more closely on developing new energy storage technologies as they consider a national renewable electricity standard, according to one of the principal recommendations in a newly released report, Integrating Renewable Electricity on the Grid, by the American Physical Society’s Panel on Public Affairs (POPA). Establishing a national renewable electricity standard will…