But Judge Margaret Downie, writing for the court,douuo.com/gucci, said the record
shows the commission clearly considered how decisions made today on
sources of energy will affect rates in the future.
For example, she said, commissioners concluded after their hearings
that continued reliance on fossil fuels - coal and natural gas -
"is inadequate and insufficient to promote and safeguard the
security, convenience, health and safety" of utility customers "and
is therefore unjust, unreasonable,Prada handbags, unsafe and improper."
And Downie said commissioners had evidence that reliance on a few
sources of power makes the utilities and their customers more
susceptible to both price fluctuations and shortages,hongae. That included
a rate hike sought by APS when natural gas prices rose.
"Prophylactic measures designed to prevent adverse effects on
ratepayers due to a failure to diversify electrical energy sources
fall within the commission's power to lock the barn door before the
horse escapes,Toms Shoes Sale," she said.
The regulations require investor-owned utilities to generate 15
percent of their power from renewable sources by 2025. The list of
acceptable alternate sources includes solar, wind and
geothermal,Gucci Outlet.
Commissioners acknowledged that these alternate sources of energy
do cost more than power generated from nuclear energy or from
coal-fired plants. And they gave the utilities permission to impose
a surcharge to make up the difference.
Arizona Public Service, for example, can charge residential
customers up to an additional $4.05 a month, with higher figures
for commercial and industrial users. It was that surcharge that the
Goldwater Institute argued gave the individuals and businesses it
represents the grounds to challenge the rules,longchamp pas cher.
The appellate judges also brushed aside complaints by Goldwater
that the rules get into details that should be left to each
utility's management.
Downie said the problem with that argument is that the utilities
themselves are not complaining.
In fact, she noted, most,gucci outlet, if not all of the affected companies
worked with regulators before the rules took effect. And APS filed
legal briefs arguing that the Goldwater Institute and its clients
have no standing to make that argument.
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