T&D World covered Arizona Public Service's recent announcement to deliver 100% clean, carbon-free electricity to customers by 2050, including quotes by AEE's CEO Nat Kreamer. Read excerpts below and the entire T&D World piece here.
Arizona Public Service (APS) recently announced a goal to deliver 100% clean, carbon-free electricity to customers by 2050. The company has been on a trajectory of increasingly clean energy through solar power innovation, major investments in energy storage technology, carbon-free nuclear operations and advances in energy efficiency solutions. The goal — which is the boldest of all Arizona electric companies as well as one of the most ambitious in the country — includes a nearer-term 2030 target of achieving a resource mix that is 65% clean energy, with 45% of the APS' portfolio coming from renewable energy. The company will end all coal-fired generation by 2031, seven years sooner than previously projected...