{"id":110262,"date":"2020-07-20T21:55:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T04:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/tuscon-electric-power-makes-dramatic-pivot-toward-renewable-energy"},"modified":"2020-07-20T21:55:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T04:55:16","slug":"tuscon-electric-power-makes-dramatic-pivot-toward-renewable-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/tuscon-electric-power-makes-dramatic-pivot-toward-renewable-energy","title":{"rendered":"Tuscon Electric Power Makes Dramatic Pivot Toward Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vwg-JR9PqC4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Remember just 2 years ago when the utility companies that supply electricity to customers in Arizona went into a tizzy over a <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2018\/07\/11\/arizona-ballot-initiative-requires-50-renewable-energy-by-2030\/\">ballot initiative<\/a> that would mandate them to get 50% of their electricity from renewable sources by the year 2030? Oh, the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth could be heard from sea to shining sea. It was a direct frontal assault on the American way of life. It was so dire, the utilities ponied up <a href=\"https:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2018\/11\/05\/arizona-solar-policy-worth-40-million-to-lobbyists\/\">$40 million<\/a> of their own money (actually it was their customers\u2019 money) to defeat it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember just 2 years ago when the utility companies that supply electricity to customers in Arizona went into a tizzy over a ballot initiative that would mandate them to get 50% of their electricity from renewable sources by the year 2030? Oh, the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth could be heard from sea [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}