APS parent company sues over renewable energy ballot measure
by Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services
The parent company of the state’s largest electric utility filed suit Thursday in a bid to block voters from deciding if they want to impose new renewable energy mandates on power companies.
In a 48-page complaint, attorneys hired by Arizonans for Affordable Energy, funded by Pinnacle West Capital Corp., claim a series of legal flaws with the petitions submitted by Clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona seeking to amend the Arizona Constitution to require 50 percent of electricity generated by most power companies in Arizona come from renewable sources by 2030.
Initiative backers submitted more than 480,000 signatures. They need 225,963 to be found valid to get the issue on the November ballot.
