Thursday, October 31, 2024

Arizona advances in renewable power with federal investments

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Photos and audio by Samantha Callicutt

Arizona is on the frontline for future options to handle local weather change due to federal investments for renewable power.

That’s what Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) mentioned at present at a press convention with Arizona State Senator Priya Sundareshan (LD-18) and different native photo voltaic business leaders exterior the native manufacturing facility in photo voltaic, Solar Gain Inc. in Tucson.

Through 2021, Arizona has acquired $10.5 billion in clear power investments and incentives, by way of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

“We construct and deploy photo voltaic panels, batteries and different renewable power applied sciences that assist scale back emissions and gradual local weather change,” Kelly mentioned.

Senator Kelly added that these investments have created greater than 11,000 jobs throughout the state.

Senator Sundareshan added that the BIL and IRA are an important items of local weather laws to return out of Congress in recent times, praising Governor Katie Hobbs’ efforts to handle local weather change.

“Thank you to our Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, who stood as much as the Arizona Office of Resilience (OOR) to place Arizona to profit from these federal sources,” mentioned Sundareshan.

The state senator additionally famous that the OOR will quickly distribute about $153 million in house power rebates for energy-efficient purchases for low- to medium-income households and $156 million in grants and loans to Solar for All for residential deployment.

Solar for All is a program by way of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund below the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that can permit almost 900,000 low-income households to profit from photo voltaic power.

The state of Arizona was introduced as one in all 60 recipients of the grant funding in April.

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