The Alliance Joins Tucson Businesses and Organizations to Show Support for Energy Efficiency

Last month, the Alliance signed onto a business letter expressing concern with $6 million of rollback and suspension of Tucson Electric Power’s (TEP) energy efficiency programs and services. This is in direct response to a letter TEP filed with the Commission in May stating it has insufficient funds available ($17 million) to continue to deliver programs at the $23 million budget level approved by the Commission, the same budget as 2016. As a result of the $6 million funding shortfall, TEP is suspending some programs and is no longer serving customers through important programs like its commercial energy efficiency programs, which provide comprehensive services and tools to small businesses and commercial business customers. The Alliance strongly encourages the Arizona Corporation Commission to direct TEP to retain the $23 million budget previously approved by the Commission and set the demand-side management (DSM) charge at the level necessary to support that budget. Read the letter here.