Solar-Powered Coal

Arizona’s Green Divide has a less apparent extraction of wealth from captive electric utility ratepayers and taxpayers.

These unsuspecting payers are funding the installation of solar electric systems on their more fortunate neighbors’ houses; thereby assisting their neighbors to abandon them to pay for an ever greater share of increasing utility electricity costs.

These captive ratepayers are also funding the electric utilities’ acquisition of environmental (a.k.a. carbon) credits.

There is an environmental credit associated with each kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity produced by your RE System, which represents the environmental benefits, emissions, reductions, offsets and allowances attributable to the generation of energy from your RE System. Title to and ownership of any and all environmental credits associated with your RE System will be assigned to us when we make payment of the Credit Purchase Payment to you. Thereafter, we will have exclusive title to and ownership of all such environmental credits. The calculation, use and retirement of any and all environmental credits will be in our sole and exclusive discretion. Your acceptance of the Credit Purchase Payment operates as your waiver and relinquishment of any right, title, claim or interest in the environmental credits and entitles APS to any and all environmental credits associated with your RE System from the Effective Date of this Agreement through the date that is twenty (20) years following the Commissioning Deadline (as defined below).
- Arizona Public Service agreement

These credits allow the utilities to maintain and extend the consumption of toxic fuels. Will Arizona develop the world’s first effectively solar-powered coal mine?