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The March
Rewind
During
March, the Arizona Solar Center launched a legislative tracker on its
website. Meanwhile, the Facebook
page was tracking a lot of developing stories of interest to the solar
community. See some of the news and
issues you may have missed in our March
Rewind presented below.
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Utilities Most
Likely To Fall In Death Spiral
Morningstar
placed Pinnacle West (APS parent company) on the list of three most
likely utilities to suffer the death spiral.
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Team
members of SHADE, an innovative dwelling designed and built for the
desert by a team of ASU and University of New Mexico students, gave
former President Bill Clinton a tour of their solar house that is now
on location at Steele Indian Park in downtown Phoenix. 
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Steven
Chu Solves Utility Companies' Death Spiral
"You
need a better business model. So I'm telling utility companies, this is
coming down the line, so let's think of a new business model where you
can profit from this," Steven Chu, former US Secretary of Energy.
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From
Mines to Megawatts the Promise of Conflict Free Big-Solar
Arizona
startup Green Energy Storage wants to transform an abandoned open-pit
copper mine 45 miles south of Phoenix into a large-scale solar power
and pumped-hydro storage facility.
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Concentrated
Solar Power -- Did It Miss Its Chance
While
state mandates and financial incentives are driving solar energy
production, each technology must ultimately prove its worth in the
marketplace. With new CSP units coming on line, the pressure is on -
especially as they compete against solar rooftop developers, who now
have the inside track.
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Tucson
Going After Tesla's New Jobs
The
city of Tucson has made a formal proposal to become the home of a $5
billion "gigafactory" for lithium-ion batteries for electric cars.
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Arizona's
Solar Fight Moves to Tax Credits
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Communications
Director
Arizona Solar Energy Center
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Energy
Spark
The
Governor's Office of Energy Policy created the video Energy Spark as a
primer on energy in the State of Arizona.
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