SALT LAKE CITY — Want some solar energy with your geothermal?

Rebuffed by the state's high court, the Goldwater Institute is trying another venue in its effort to void a requirement that utilities generate 15 percent of their power from renewable sources.

Rebuffed by the state's high court, the Goldwater Institute is trying another venue in its effort to void a requirement that utilities generate 15 percent of their power from renewable sources.

As Arizona looks to tap more of its most abundant resource, sunshine, state lawmakers want to help make that happen by creating tax breaks for power plant builders and helping homeowners, businesses and schools convert to solar power.

With its sharp talons, powerful beak and 7-foot wingspan, the golden eagle is one of Arizona’s fiercest and most imposing birds of prey. It’s no match, however, for the rotating blades of turbines in wind farms.

Dale Whiting: The debate over the future of U.S. energy policy has become more vocal. Opponents of carbon emission cap-and-trade claim implementation will increase the average home energy bill by $1,700 per year.

The city of Phoenix has invested millions of dollars over the years to make air quality better through the use of alternative fuels in city-run vehicles and continues to look out for what comes next.

The city of Phoenix has invested millions of dollars over the years to make air quality better through the use of alternative fuels in city-run vehicles and continues to look out for what comes next.

CHICAGO - The future of energy is bright in Said Al-Hallaj’s invention lab at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and not just because of the solar window that lies in development on a table.

With gasoline prices soaring, Tempe residents Richard and Evangeline Keefe had been thinking about buying a gas/electric hybrid car.

With gasoline prices soaring, Tempe residents Richard and Evangeline Keefe had been thinking about buying a gas/electric hybrid car.

Consumers upset about gas prices, as well as those advocating higher taxes to drive down demand, now have another example of the free market being the correct answer.

Mesa is looking to promote energy conservation programs that could eventually lead to rate reductions for thousands of residents who now pay 15 percent more for power from the city’s utility than customers of surrounding electric companies.

A draft alternative energy plan prepared by the staff of Salt River Project proposes that the utility acquire 15 percent of its electricity from sustainable energy sources such as wind and solar by 2025, up from 2 percent now.

The future of a mandate to use more renewable energy — and force Arizona customers to pay more to buy it — could be in the hands of Gov. Janet Napolitano.

The Salt River Project board of directors approved a plan Monday to increase the utility’s use of renewable energy to supply its electricity customers.

Renewable energy is all the rage these days. With gasoline prices rising, with greenhouse gases and global warming at the forefront of public concern, the lure of pollution-free energy from windmills, photovoltaic solar panels and geothermal wells has never been stronger.

U.S. Department of Energy said Tuesday it will fund research on a process developed by a Gilbert company that turns coal into synthetic gas.

City and regional transit agencies hope you'll give your wallet a break and public transit a chance by reducing trips on Thursday, Dump the Pump Day.

Standing at a gas station where regular unleaded was selling for $3.49 a gallon, Republican congressional candidate Dave Schweikert challenged opponent Rep. Harry Mitchell, D-Ariz., to help promote more domestic oil drilling.

The United States should put the same emphasis in developing alternative fuels this decade as it did in developing a lunar mission in the 1960s and the atom bomb in the 1940s, said Democratic Senate candidate Jim Pederson.

Even a blind squirrel can come up with an acorn once in a while, right? So there are probably at least a few items in Congress’ latest stab at an energy bill we can support. A few.

A judge has rejected a legal challenge to the authority of the Arizona Corporation Commission to require that utilities generate 15 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2025.